SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 I recently converted and upgraded from SMF to - > 3.X.X to --> 4.x.x My root install folder (smf) was at www.mydomain.com/forum/ on 3.x and when I upgraded I installed to www.mydomain.com/forums/ <--- the same but I added an "S" on forums I liked it because I could still access my old forum and I could also access my new forum. However, I see that many people are trying to log in at the old location. They must be using outdated links. Google has lots of link juice and old references too. Should I try and do some fancy regex redirect or should I simply change my new directory to "forum" instead of "forums"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 You will want your old urls to redirect to your new ones, otherwise you lose all SEO and run the risk of duplicate content on your domain. I'd suggest moving it back to the old location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 7 minutes ago, Jim M said: You will want your old urls to redirect to your new ones, otherwise you lose all SEO and run the risk of duplicate content on your domain. I'd suggest moving it back to the old location. but all the old urls will lead to "page cannot be found errors". I guess that's better than people being lost on old site. How would I go about changing the IPB settings to let it know its in a new folder? Edit: I found $INFO['board_url'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 26 minutes ago, superj707 said: but all the old urls will lead to "page cannot be found errors". This should not happen. Please submit a ticket if it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 12 minutes ago, Jim M said: This should not happen. Please submit a ticket if it does. of course it would happen. All the links leading to my site from years and years are to www.MY_SMF.com site and now I am using IP ... there is no way the links or even topic ID numbers line up anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 1 minute ago, superj707 said: of course it would happen. All the links leading to my site from years and years or to www.MY_SMF.com site and now I am using IP ... there is no way the links or even topic ID numbers line up anymore. Ah, this was not described. Yes, if you're using a different domain then you're out of luck I'm afraid. Nothing you can do will restore your SEO from the previous point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 6 minutes ago, Jim M said: Ah, this was not described. Yes, if you're using a different domain then you're out of luck I'm afraid. Nothing you can do will restore your SEO from the previous point. ARGH!!! I am not using a different domain MY site was using SMF (different forum software) http://www.simplemachines.org/ I had the original installation in a directory called "forum" and the new one in a directory called "forums" Even If I move back to the "forum" directory the links between SMF and IPB don't line up. Here is an example of the SMF link verses IP (SAME TOPIC) http://www.curvage.org/forum/index.php?topic=542311.0 http://www.curvage.org/forums/424674-Curvy-wife/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 When you converted to IPS software these links should have redirected. If they have not, then something went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 12 minutes ago, Jim M said: When you converted to IPS software these links should have redirected. If they have not, then something went wrong. How exactly would the IPS upgrade convert 100's of thousands of links scattered across the web and stored in google etc? All those links no longer lead to anything...I don't know what you are trying to tell me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 2 minutes ago, superj707 said: How exactly would the IPS upgrade convert 100's of thousands of links scattered across the web and stored in google etc? All those links no longer lead to anything...I don't know what you are trying to tell me They would not convert the links across the web. They would redirect them. Example: Old link = domain.com/xyz-old New link = domain.com/xyz-new All visitors going to the "Old link" would be redirected to the "new link" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 I appreciate your help, can we get back to answering this question. I am still not sure what to do. Should I try and do some fancy regex redirect or should I simply change my new directory to "forum" instead of "forums"? So should I move IPB to "forum" (where my site has been for the last 7 years) or should I leave it in "forums" because IPB is doing redirects As is "old link" lands one on the SMF site and not the IPB site. I think you are talking about upgrade and not conversion from different software TOPIC REBOOT!!.. please see below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 I am going to start over. I think I've made a mess of this discussion. For YEARS I ran my site using SMF software at www.MY-DOMAIN/.com/forum Thus, there are 1000's of links leading back to www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forum Recently I converted to IPB and put my IPB instillation in a different directory www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forums <--added an "s" I changed my domain server to send www.MY-DOMAIN.com requests to the "forums" directory instead of "forum" However, to my dismay I see 100's of people trying to log into the old site at www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forum Clearly this is because they have links, bookmarks or whatever pointing to the "forum" directory as opposed to the new "forums" So to fix this should I Keep IPB in "forums" and use .htaccess to redirect all "forum" traffic to "forums" OR should I simply move IPB to the directory I've been using for years "forum" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Boyd Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 3 minutes ago, superj707 said: I am going to start over. I think I've made a mess of this discussion. For YEARS I ran my site using SMF software at www.MY-DOMAIN/.com/forum Thus, there are 1000's of links leading back to www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forum Recently I converted to IPB and put my IPB instillation in a different directory www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forums <--added an "s" I changed my domain server to send www.MY-DOMAIN.com requests to the "forums" directory instead of "forum" However, to my dismay I see 100's of people trying to log into the old site at www.MY-DOMAIN.com/forum Clearly this is because they have links, bookmarks or whatever pointing to the "forum" directory as opposed to the new "forums" So to fix this should I Keep IPB in "forums" and use .htaccess to redirect all "forum" traffic to "forums" OR should I simply move IPB to the directory I've been using for years "forum" If you still need help, let me know! I would be glad to help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 6 hours ago, Jim M said: You will want your old urls to redirect to your new ones, otherwise you lose all SEO and run the risk of duplicate content on your domain. I'd suggest moving it back to the old location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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