Guys,
I am running a couple of large phpbb2 communities and some of them are SEO modified (flat urls).
Now because Olympus is all based around forums - so there is no more category param as viewforum.php?c=
On change from phpbb2 to olympus this would cause a bit of a problem (SEO or not SEO forums makes little difference). This problem would be more for boards that have deep links to their forum pages...
Say my phpbb2 board has a category:
?c=1
and also a forum:
?f=1
How will the converstion script work with those? I am guessing olympus will convert the ?c=1 to ?f=1 as far as i know and ?f=1 (phpbb2) to ?f=2...
Basicly my main concern is to have all phpbb2 pages already cached by Google/Yahoo still working after conversion to olympus and even better displaying correct content.
Elmz
URL changes from phpbb2
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Re: URL changes from phpbb2
The conversion script is based off of IDs:
Category ID, Forum ID, Topic ID, and Post ID.
Each one will transfer straight across, this will keep the forum in order.
Then of course, the Olympus URL format is &f=xx&t=xx&p=xx
Category ID, Forum ID, Topic ID, and Post ID.
Each one will transfer straight across, this will keep the forum in order.
Then of course, the Olympus URL format is &f=xx&t=xx&p=xx
Re: URL changes from phpbb2
Highway of Life wrote: The conversion script is based off of IDs:
Category ID, Forum ID, Topic ID, and Post ID.
Each one will transfer straight across, this will keep the forum in order.
Well, I think that's his point, it couldn'te be that straightforward because 3.0.x has no more notion of categories. A category will also be a forum, so what used to be categories and forums will now all end up in the same ID-pool. So it really completely depends on the conversion script, I'd say.
Possibly your best bet is to just see how things end up after converting and then creating static mappings from old forums to new. May or may not be feasible depending on the number of forums you have.