Hello, me and my group of crazy idiots are really close to finally migrate our Vbulletin3 forum into Discourse after having wrote an ad-hoc script that finally manages to migrate all the 21 millions replies from the original database into discourse. Now, we have the problem of links to the topics/r…

This already exists in core, it is called Permalinks, and the existing VB4 importer has code for it script/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb main topics.each do |thread| topic_id = "thread-#{thread["threadid"]}" topic = t…

Just to confirm, I should run this logic after the migration has completed right? So it goes through all the replies again and changes the permalinks

[imagem] Crius: changes How do you mean, changes? Do you already have permalinks?

When we migrate the content of a reply with, for example: https://oldforum.something.com/showthread.php?t=123456 doesn’t know what id that topic will have on discourse… no?

it will if you use the above code to create permalinks. showthread.php?t= refers to a topic/thread and not to a reply btw

[imagem] Richard - Communiteq: showthread.php?t= refers to a topic/thread and not to a reply btw I was just using that link as an example :slight_smile: Unfortunately we cannot use that code because the import takes ages to import 20 million posts and the bulk import simply doesn’t work. The…

Maybe you can consider the pre-permalinks nginx map solution? Redirect vBulletin URLs to Discourse URLs

We discussed internally and will simply do a second pass when all replies have been migrated. Thanks for bouncing back ideas with me Richard :heart:

Did your script create import_ids? If so, even if your didn’t create the permalinks, you can fairly quickly process those to create them.

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) Fevereiro 8, 2023, 8:27pm 8

Talvez você possa considerar a solução de mapa nginx pré-permalinks? Redirect vBulletin URLs to Discourse URLs

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