If I import data from StackExchange, will my original URLs work?

My StackExchange site has URLs that look like this:

http://ask.antimoon.com/questions/2188/fake-english-words-in-your-language

If I install Askbot at ask.antimoon.com and import the SE dump, will these URLs point to the correct question pages?

If not, can it be done easily?

Evgeny

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I will be offline for an hour or so...

Evgeny (13 years ago)

this url is done - in the github repo.

Evgeny (13 years ago)

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Most of them are the same, but can be made identical, if not. Do you have a deadline to move off SE?

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Evgeny

answered 13 years ago

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I've still got over 3 weeks. Not sure I understand your answer, Evgeny. I noticed the URLs look a bit different on Askbot.org. Does the URL format I pasted above work "out of the box" or do I have to effect some magic with mod_rewrite or something like that?

Tomasz P. Szynalski (13 years ago)

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There might be problems in the url:

Compare this url

http://askbot.org/en/question/454/if-i-import-data-from-stackexchange-will-my

http://ask.antimoon.com/questions/2188/fake-english-words-in-your-language

Please notice the stackexchange is using questions, and there is no en in the url

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DealsVistaCom

answered 13 years ago

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Yep. That's why I'm asking this question. :)

Tomasz P. Szynalski (13 years ago)

the /en/ part is specific to this site only, but I added a setting to the settings.py ASKBOT_USE_STACKEXCHANGE_URLS - so far it just enables the /questions/<id>/slug url, if anything else needs to be adjusted - please let me know.

Evgeny (13 years ago)

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