UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Importer Support Post IDs and external links

Hello,

it seems that the importer renumbers posts. This breaks all external links to topics on the forum during the migration to version 7.

Is there a way to get a "old id, new id" map somewhere (MySQL)?

Please take a look at the following post which should help you.

https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=11&Number=170348

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Hmmm...

I just tried the .Classic redirect scripts for the first time and they don't seem to be entirely working...

/ubb/ultimatebb.php - Kinda works...

http://www.gangsterbb.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000022
takes me to
http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/u...000022&Number=0&site_id=1#import

However, links like

http://www.gangsterbb.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum;f=13
just takes me to the main Threads cfrm page, not the particular forum


/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi - Gives me a blank page even with $redirect = 0;
Since most of my SE links are to the cgi pages, I've reverted back to the original for now.


For both redirect scripts:

$URL = "http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads";
$site_id = 1;
$redirect = 302; (0 doesn't help)
$search_friendly = 0;

Path to PERL is correct.

Clues?

Well not sure about classic because I actually went from 6.5 Threads to 7.0 Threads and it worked for me and others.

Links directly to the forum will just redirect to the main page, as we don't actually map the old forum ids to the new ones.

As for the cgi redirect problem. You might try looking at the server error logs if you have access to it, perhaps there is something in there as to what's going wrong.

Okay, I don't know what's going on, but the cgi links are now taking me to the Threads home page, instead of a blank page (with $redirect = 0;)

e.g.,
http://www.gangsterbb.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=9;t=001279
(I reverted back to the original again; with the redirect that went to cfrm page)

Seems most of my .classic links are for print_topic and recent_user_posts (not sure if that gives a clue)


I'm not getting any errors in the log right now, but there are a few of these from around the time I was testing it before - which is the same error I got a while back, about the /none "directory":

[Tue Dec 19 15:35:14 2006] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] script not found or unable to stat: /home2/gbb/public_html/cgi-bin/none

Thanks, that did it

Missed this part while migrating my forum to the v7.

Great, glad to hear it.

Yeah. But there are still some error reports coming in from users about links not longer working. I'll analyze this further and see what the problem is.

Perhaps ask them to logout and delete there cookie for your site and see if it makes any difference.

They have. It seems that the new post id is in fact different from the original post id for these posts. And the "mapper" scripts from the Imports folder can of course not fix that.

Not sure if you're coming from threads or classic, but it should redirect you to the proper new post if you edited and uploaded all of the redirect scripts.

Hi, Rick

I've upgraded from 6.5 to the 7.x. For most posts it works, but for some posts it fails. Not sure what the difference is, and it will be hard to verify if these links worked with the old forum.

I guess I can live with the current status quo, if nothing else comes up.

What are the messages.. post no longer exists ??

"Page not found"