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I am trying to convert all my old nginx rewrites to hiawatha but it seems I do something wrong because they all keep givng 404.

Currently in Nginx I have the following rewrites:

 rewrite ^/threads/ulyaoth-repositories.3/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/ulyaoth-repository.6/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/hiawatha.7/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-mbedtls.12137/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/mbed-tls.8/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-monkey.11622/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/monkey.9/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-tengine.3843/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/tengine-stable.10/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-httpdiff-masterbuild.741/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/httpdiff.11/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-solr.112/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/solr-5.12/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-banana.111/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/banana.13/;
  rewrite ^/threads/package-spotify.6/ https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/spotify.14/;

In Hiawatha I do the following,

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/ Rewrite /resources/hiawatha.7/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-mbedtls.12137/ Rewrite /resources/mbed-tls.8/
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

I also tried this:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/ Redirect https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/hiawatha.7/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-mbedtls.12137/ Rewrite https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/mbed-tls.8/
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

But neither works it does not give an error I just get a 404 error when I try go to "/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/".

Any idea what I do wrong perhaps?

Hugo do you have any idea what I do wrong perhaps? still stuck with this.

What I basically want is my old urls to redirect to the new version so:
https://www.ulyaoth.net/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/ should become https://www.ulyaoth.net/resources/hiawatha.7/

Could you perhaps show me how to do this one?

Sorry, I somehow must have missed this one.

I have no idea what's inside, for example, the /resources/hiawatha.7/ directory and what should be shown. Is there an index.php? Should a directory listing be shown?

I basically just want to match that url and rewrite or redirect it to the new url.

But the general rewrite to make the php app work I use is this:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

The directories basically not exist it is just how they call it friendly urls.

But when /threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037 has been rewritten to /resources/hiawatha.7/, how is Hiawatha supposed to handle /resources/hiawatha.7/? Now, Hiawatha probably look for an index.php file in that directory. If it not exists, you end up with a 404.

Thank you for the reply it is supposed to process the new url/rewrite with this toolkit:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

I resolved it started to think about what you said about what is it supposed to do so I tried some things and this works fine now:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  Match ^/threads/ulyaoth-repositories.3/ Redirect /resources/ulyaoth-repository.6/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-hiawatha.23037/ Redirect /resources/hiawatha.7/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-mbedtls.12137/ Redirect /resources/mbed-tls.8/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-monkey.11622/ Redirect /resources/monkey.9/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-tengine.3843/ Redirect /resources/tengine-stable.10/
  Match ^/threads/package-ulyaoth-httpdiff-masterbuild.741/ Redirect /resources/httpdiff.11/
  Match ^/forums/repository/ Redirect /resources/categories/repository.1/
  Match ^/forums/guides/ Redirect /resources/categories/it-tutorials.2/
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

Thank you again Hugo!

Perhaps you could add "Xenforo" on this page: https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/howto/url_rewrite_rules

The correct rewrite is this:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = xenforo
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

Might help someone else.

Good to hear it all works! I've added the rewrite rule to the HOWTO page. Thanks!