Xenforo vB to XF Rewrite Help

I'm converting on of my forums from vB (no VBSEO, just vB URLs) to XF within the week.. I'm planning everything now.

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I'm looking for the Nginx rewrites for converting the URLs. I've searched on the XF site but I'm not having much luck (or confidence) for that matter.

 

I don't see why an add-on is required? Is this not as simple as placing rewrites in the NGINX config file?

 

Current (OLD) URL:

Code:

http://www.thetruckstop.us/forum/showthread.php?36935-2003-lb7-injector-replacement

XF will have friend urls enabled.. and be in the same /forum/ structure.

 

Anyone know the best way to handle the vBulletin forum.php URL? It comes up as a 404 in Nginx, any pointers for a rewrite to fix that?

 

Current config:

Code:

location /{
rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.$server_name/forum/ permanent;
}

location /forum/ {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$uri&$args;

}

location /forum/internal_data/ {
internal;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}

location /forum/library/ {
internal;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

I tried adding:

Code:

rewrite /(forum.php)$ /forum/index.php last;

to my forum block but no luck..

 

I just created a new forum.php file and redirected that way with success! Thanks!