moving forum..... help req. with post redirection.

[Overseer]

sometime soon i will be changing the domain my board is hosted on...

so my board being at say   www.current.com/index.php
would be on www.mynewsite.com/forum/index.php

my question is...

is there a script out there, or somethign i can do so that old post links (i will still have the old domain) will still work.. in that a script at the old location would redirect to the same post on the new location.

i think something like this was done on yabb se's own site here before sometime.

[Shadow's Pawn]

Why don't you just move the database over to your new server?  Then you can just replace index.php on your old server with a redirect to the new one.

[Overseer]

uhhh thats what i meant all along....

people using the old URL for a post... say within an old post already on the board.. or linked from an external source...

someone going to say  www.current.com/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=34189

should get bounced to

www.mynewsite.com/forum/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=34189

notice i am moving the board into a subdirectory under the new URL too.. because there will be an entrance page below it.

[[Unknown]]

Yeah, it's easy.  Replace your index.php with something like:

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<?phpheader('Location: ' . str_replace(' ', '%20', 'http://newurl/index.php?' . $UQERY_STRING));?>

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[Overseer]

cool thx

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i think its better to do it in .htaccess
Redirect permanent /forum http://www.newsite.com/forum

but your old site might not be up all the time
so, use something like this script to convert all old urls:

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<?phpinclude "Settings.php";$dbcon = mysql_connect($db_server, $db_user, $db_passwd) or die(mysql_error());mysql_select_db($db_name) or die(mysql_error());$searchstring = "http://www.oldsite.com";$replacestring = "http://www.newsite.org";$query = "SELECT `ID_MSG`, `body`   FROM `md_messages`    WHERE 1 AND `body` LIKE '%$searchstring%';";echo '<b>' . $query . '</b><br /><br />';$request = mysql_query($query);while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($request)){   //echo $row['body'] . '<br /><hr /><br />';   $replacement = str_replace($searchstring, $replacestring, $row['body']);   $replacement = addslashes($replacement);   $idmsg = $row['ID_MSG'];   //echo '<div style="background-color: yellow;">' . $replacement . '</div><hr /><br />';   $request2 = mysql_query("UPDATE `md_messages` SET body='$replacement' WHERE ID_MSG=$idmsg LIMIT 1;");   echo "UPDATE `md_messages` SET body='$replacement' WHERE ID_MSG=$idmsg LIMIT 1;<br /><br />";}?>

make sure you do a backup before...

[Overseer]

old site will be up all the time.. the domains will be hosted under one account

i might do the dbase thing... i can actually fix some old links from when my board was under cgi-bin up using that too