Moving Site From VB To IPB

[ibby]

hello my name is ibby. i have currently moved my forum from vBulletin To Invision Power Board 3.1.4. I Already Have Some Post Submitted To Katz, So How Will This Work, Because The URLs' Are Different. Thanks

 

[TLK]

They will delete all your submissions and demote your site ratings afaik.

 

[ibby]

they will delete all my submission, but i dont understand what u said next

 

[soft2050]

they will delete all my submission, but i dont understand what u said next

he said that they will also decrease your site rating if they found links not working

 

[nYXem]

Its better to mail katz about this. And later when URLs change, your already submitted downloads will get auto deleted from katz. And most probably your site will not get demoted if you follow what I said.

 

[devilboy23]

its better to mail them to remove all your submissions then convert you board

 

[Exclusive5]

there just going to delete all your submission there not going to demote if your site is only a 1

 

[ibby]

xD thanks for the answers

 

[xTreme]

There is no need to delete the submissions, u can "301 redirect" the pages.

 

[ibby]

How i Do That xTreme? i already switched to ipb

 

[Amfidiusz]

Use the .htaccess file. Look for the appropriate rules at the IPS community forums - there were plenty of topics like this so you will get a pre-made content

 

[ibby]

i did no luck

 

[The Coon]

Why did you move anyway? IPB sucks!

 

[Invisian]

see this mate
might help

http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

btw i think this one better
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

Look on it for this "Redirect Old domain to New domain"

 

[ibby]

did not work, want to redirect this... http://www.exclusivewarez.info/showthread.php?190-AVG-Anti-Virus-Pro-(2011)

to this

http://exclusivewarez.info/index.php?/topic/21-avg-anti-virus-pro-2011/

 

[Lock Down]

The topic id numbers are different? I have never seen that before in a vb-ipb conversion.

No way to know that 190 became 21.

Best way is to leave the old guest section VB up and running until the files are deleted from the file hosts.

 

[Invisian]

Lock Down this happen when are topics deleted so kinda the DB start from 1 and up...
happened to me with phpBB to IPB.

 

[xTreme]

there are converters available which retain the url..