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My blog is only a couple of days old. I’ve installed this plugin yesterday. It installs and works great. Thanks.

I’ve got one question: I noticed there is no spam protection build in? Don’t you get flooded by spammers? I’ve got Askimet, but Askimet only stops comments to posts, isn’t it?

I ment to write [IMG][/img] this NOT work, but it worked on my old SMF forum.

No that’s not what I mean (I think).

All my domain-names including myoldsmfforum.com and mynewblog.com are hosted by a large domain name host (registrar) now. All my websites are hosted on my own Plesk/Apache/CentOs VPS now. So I’m my own hosting company/admin and I’m my only client. I can create up to 10 user accounts (they call it clients/domains in Plesk) for me.

I’ve closed my old SMF Forum/TinyPortal (which was still on an old shared hosting account). I only keep the domain-name myoldsmfforum.com to be able to redirect old SMF-URLs, which I saved in a *.txt file, to my new WP-blog. So I created a special user account in my Plesk VPS for myoldsmfforum.com only to place the .htaccess in the root. So it’s an empty “website” with only an .htaccess file.

I’ve done redirects a couple of years ago without problems, but I can’t get it to work on my VPS. I tried this solution but no luck. I don’t even think .htaccess files are disabled by default in Plesk, but I’m not 100% sure.

I don’t think I have to put anything else, but the 301 redirect rules in the .htaccess file in the root of myoldsmfforum.com, don’t I? It redirects to my server but the server looks for the old SMF URLs in stead of the new WP URLs:

“Not Found

The requested URL /smf/blabla/my-seo-friendly-smf-forum-post/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at mynewwpblog.com Port 80″

As a work around I’ve forwarded the complete domain myoldsmfforum.com to mynewblog.com from my user account at my domain-name host, using the domain manager (DNS) in that account.

I think normally a .htaccess file in the root of website/blog overrules the redirect done from a domain manager (DNS)? I mean can I redirect (asuming it works) to individual pages, when the complete domain is forwarded from the domain-host? Which goes first?

Ah, I can’t get it to work. To make things more complicated, Firefox seems to “remember” old or wrong redirects. When I test it in IE or Chrome, I get an Apache Testpage.

I’ve removed the SMF folder, so the root of my old SMF site (httpdocs, because I use plesk, it was public-html on my shared account) is empty. I put the htaccess file in the root. With the folowing rule:

Redirect 301 ^smf/my-cat/my-url/ https://mynewblog.com/?p=159

or

Redirect 301 smf/my-cat/my-url/ https://mynewblog.com/?p=159

For now I’ve forwarded the old domain to my new domain from my domain manager. It was better, however to redirect individual pages, because they are popular and they contain affiliate links.

Perhaps my VPS is not setup correctly? When I type “www.” before any of my domains it redirects to 1 other website on the same IP….

any other ideas? Thanks for all the efforts on this!

Thanks for the reply. I found out that my old smf postings have “www” URLs. So the complete old forum URL is https://www.myoldsmfforum.com/smf/blabla/my-seo-friendly-smf-forum-post/

If I delete the “www” in Firefox adress bar, the redirect works fine. Problem is that my old URL’s DO HAVE “www”.

I tried this code (found with google) in the .htaccess file but it does NOT work:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.myoldsmfforum.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://myoldsmfforum.com/$1 [L,R=301]

There’s a wp addthis plugin. Haven’t tried it though.

I’m a wordpress newbe, but have a couple of years experience with other scripts and plain HTML sites. In general you can place images next to other items by using html-tables.

Are you sure you want to use separate buttons for each social media site? If you use the adthis button you get over 300 sites with one little piece of code and you get detailed statistics too in your user panel.

Strange, are you sure you don’t/didn’t use “forbidden” seo tricks and your domain is/was free of malware now and in the past?

The first time I visited your site, it took I think 5 or 6 seconds to load. You might loose potentional visitors by that and perhaps Google too?