ubb-redirect

UBB Forum post-migration url redirector

Quick and dirty solution to redirect my migrated UBB forum Topics/Forums/Users URLs to NodeBB ids. it can be used to anything other target forum, doesn't have to be NodeBB, but the source forum must be UBB.

Map

You must create/generate a map of the source topics/forums/users ids, each will map to either ids or slugs of the target forum software you will be using. If you decide to migrate to NodeBB, use the migrator linked below, which will make that easy for you, otherwise, I'll let you figure that out, but your map must look like the map.sample.json in structure. Look at the source if you're curious, it's not as bad as you think.

Install

 
npm install ubb-redirector
cd node_modules/ubb-redirector
# or you can clone it directly from here 
git clone https://github.com/akhoury/ubb-redirector.git
cd ubb-director
 
# install dependencies 
npm install
 
# I would use 'forever' or 'supervisor' to keep it running 
sudo npm install -g forever
 
forever -o out.log ubbredirector.js --map="map.sample.json" --port=3000 --host=127.0.0.1 --verbose
 
# or simply, for a quick demo, and it will default to values used one line above. minus the -v flag :) 
node ubbredirector.js  -v
 

Required Nginx setup

see nginx.example.com to view an example on the setup I needed, basically the old UBB forum lived under example.com/forums, so I have a location /forums directive in nginx to handle all request into that, which just proxies the requests to ubb-redirector for it to handle the logic

UBB Version

7.5.7

Migrator?

if you want to migrate to NodeBB give this nodebb-plugin-ubbmigrator a shot. I also added nginx.forums.example.com which proxies the requests to NodeBB's process.