Xenforo XenForo Redirects for vBulletin 1.0.2

Was 1.0.2 a typo?

 

XenForo Redirects for vBulletin

 

Oh. I thought you were talking about vBulletin version 1.0.2.

 

Several people on the Xenforo forum are complaining that this addon doesn't work on nginx and haven't got a formal response from Xenforo, they said it's not supported by them.

The addon in question is for Xenforo 2:
XenForo Redirects for vBulletin

The latest version is 1.1.5

It redirects old vbulletin URLs to Xenforo, but it only works correctly on apache. Has anyone got this working?

I tried a recommended fix which fixed 95% of redirects but introduced another bug where certain URLs are redirecting to "domain.com/domain.com/"

Besides this, everything is working perfectly, and other people are complaining of the same issue, so I'm mostly sure that it's not my config. The Xenforo friendly URL rewrites are setup and working correctly per the instructions, so again, that should not be a cause of the issue.

Here is the important portion of my conf:

Code:

location / {

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
    index index.php index.html;

    #auth_basic "Private";
    #auth_basic_user_file /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd;

    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;

    # block common exploits, sql injections etc
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf;
}

location /admin.php {
   auth_basic "Private";
   auth_basic_user_file /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd;
   include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
}
   
location /install/ {
   auth_basic "Private";
   auth_basic_user_file /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd;
   include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
}  
   
location /install/data/ {
  internal;
}
location /install/templates/ {
  internal;
}
location /internal_data/ {
  internal;
}
location /library/ { #legacy
  internal;
}
location /src/ {
  internal;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
  #vbulletin redirect partial fix:
  #try_files $uri /index.php?$uri&$args;
 
  #normal:
  #try_files $uri =404;
 
  fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
  fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  include         fastcgi_params;
}

My post on Xenforo forum is here, for more info:
XenForo Redirects for vBulletin

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Fixed!

you must have the Xenforo Redirects for vBulletin addon installed, and select your "import_log" table in the addon options.

In the PHP block:

you must comment out:

Code:

try_files $uri =404;

replace it with:

Code:

try_files $uri /index.php?$uri&$args;

Then restart nginx and clear your browser cache and maybe any other caches.

Should that not solve your problem here is a fix for showthread.php, put this above you "location /" block

Code:

location ~ ^/showthread.php
{
    if ($args ~* ^(\d+)-(.+)$)
    {
        set $tid $1;
        set $args '';
        rewrite ^ /threads/$tid permanent;
    }

   if ($args ~* ^t=(\d+)$)
    {
    set $tid $1;
    set $args '';
    rewrite ^ /threads/$tid permanent;
    }
}

 

I made a little video tutorial on nginx vbulletin -> xenforo redirects with friendly URLS


part of my larger tutorial series CentMin Mod Beginner Video Tutorials

 

My problem is related to the exact same thing so I will post it here,
Vbulletin forum was on site.com/forum/
new xenforo is on site.com/
I have created a directory named forum and moved the index.php and corrected the path as in the xenforo guide, but it's still not redirecting.

but all urls are redirecting correctly without the /forum/ part.

Can you guys help me with a little rewrite rule to remove this /forum/ part from the nginx $uri?

I've tried this:

Code:

 location ~ \.php$ {
  if ($uri ~ ^/forum/.*$) {
        rewrite ^/forum/(.*$) ^$1 permanent;
        }
      try_files $uri /index.php?$uri&$args;
      add_header X-uri2 "$uri";
      fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include         fastcgi_params;
  }

and it gets stuck in a loop and stops the connection here

Code:

https://site.comt/forum/%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5E%5Eshowthread.php?t=1449456

there is something wrong with this part

Code (Text):

rewrite ^/forum/(.*$) ^$1 permanent;

edit:
location ~ ^/forum/.*$ {
rewrite ^/forum/(.*$) /$1 permanent;
}
this did the trick