Old phpBB (forum trashed) – old session ID’s wont redirect

what part of the url is “bad”

is f=7 ok?
or is the sid failing the url? as sid should not break the url

Everything from /games-forum/ is non existent, in fact the folder no longer exists either.

But trying to do a redirect from the folder “/games-forum/” to the domain root doesn’t even stop the above URL issuing a 404 page not found. I’m pulling my hair out here.

Everything from “?f=7&mark=topics&sid=d3f326d165a46e91547913ae3baaf2ca” doesn’t redirect to home page.

using redirect 301 from /games-forum/viewforum.php xxhttp://www.mydomain.com/

works.

ok, are ou using a .htaccess redirect or did you create a redirect in place of the physical file?

/games-forum/viewforum.php

Used the .htaccess

EG – redirect 301 /games-forum/viewforum.php yyhttp://www.mydomain.com/

Worked fine but I want to redirect everything from /games-forum/ and recursively below that folder, to yyhttp://www.mydomain.com/

try somthing like this

rewriterule ^/games-fourm/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/ [r=301,nc]

Thanks!

Cleared cache etc etc, even tried it on FF, IE and Opera and sorry to say it didn’t work. ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />

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rewriterule ^/games-fourm/(*)$ http://www.newsite.com/ [r=301,nc]

try without the period..

Is there a typo in that rewrite rule^ should it be:

^/games-forum/(*)$ http://www.newsite.com/ [r=301,nc]

wouldnt think so, im trying to do this off top of my head, i should look into it, you have rewrite rules enabled correct?

@allfreechips 246486 wrote:

you have rewrite rules enabled correct?

Yes, have used rewrites to succefully redirect old pages to new and all works fine.

Have tried Arjun’s example and sad to say it produced a 500 error.