Search results within archives not working

There seems to be a problem with the site search: if results are archived threads, then the links for these threads are broken.

The problem is that the '?' in the link should really be a '/'. For example the result comes back as:

http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-94316.html

Whereas, it should really be:

http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-94316.html

--mamamia

Do you mean when searching using the search box at the top of the page (Google)? For archived threads, I get the 2nd, correct version:

http://www.codingforums.com/result.htm?cx=partner-pub-3356683755662088%3Ai21tla-3q3e&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=archive&sa=Search#948

Do you mean when searching using the search box at the top of the page (Google)? For archived threads, I get the 2nd, correct version:

http://www.codingforums.com/result.htm?cx=partner-pub-3356683755662088%3Ai21tla-3q3e&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=archive&sa=Search#948
No.

Eg: http://www.codingforums.com/result.htm?cx=partner-pub-3356683755662088%3Ai21tla-3q3e&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=CSS+archive&sa=Search#837

The above search gives a result having a target url

www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-129222.html, which is correct

But there are a lot of other links in the format

www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-413.html
codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-53390.html

which are not pointing to the correct page. I always edit such urls to
showthread.php?t= format to get the desired page, which may not be possible for new members

Hope this is clear.

Thanks

Hi:
Thanks for the clarification. I see it now. I'll try and get that fixed.

This should be fixed now. I've set up a redirect of the old URL structure to the new. If you still have issues, let me know.

Just wondering how google bots indexed those faulty(?) urls, without this current fix?

On the old server, the archive URLs use the "?" character. After the move over, it automatically changed to "/". I took a look in the VB source code, and apparently vBulletin decides based on the server capabilities which character to use.

I took a look in the VB source code, and apparently vBulletin decides based on the server capabilities which character to use. wow! Intelligent vBulletin :)