Change page parameter back to /page= from new /?page=

[Frank S. Hagan]

Quite a few of my members bookmarked specific pages of my forums, and the URL is now different. Here's an example from 3.x:

http://messing-about.com/forums/topic/9480-core-sound-17-mk-3-summer-breeze/page-24

It is now: 

http://messing-about.com/forums/topic/9480-core-sound-17-mk-3-summer-breeze/?page-24

Is there a way to revert to the old method so their links will work?

 

[Frank S. Hagan]

Well, so far I have this in my .htaccess file in the forum root:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)/page-(.*)$ /$1?page==2

This rewrites the url:

http://messing-about.com/forums/topic/9480-core-sound-17-mk-3-summer-breeze/page-9

to the new version:

http://messing-about.com/forums/topic/9480-core-sound-17-mk-3-summer-breeze/?page=9

However, for any double digit page numbers it does not work. 

/page-15 will rewrite to /?page=1 (all page numbers from 10 to 19 drop the second number)

/page-26 will rewrite to /?page=2 (all page numbers from 20 to 29 drop the second number too). 

Any help on this one?