Comments on: Help me redirect my old URLs

Question: Help me redirect my old URLs

Blandanomics — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:50:33 -0800

Help me redirect my old URLs. So we switched sites. The old URL structure was:

http://www.domain.com/media/paper143/news/2005/03/22/OutAndAbout/My.Old.South.Philly.Home-899896.shtml

The new one is http://domain.com/2005/03/22/My-Old-South-Philly-Home

What is the easiest way to redirect the old to the new? Is there any way?(the old url is from an old CMS the new one is Wordpress)

By: loiseau

loiseau — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:00 -0800

Here's a Wordpress plugin. I have not used it tho.

By: puddpunk

puddpunk — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:59 -0800

If that wordpress plugin doesn't work out for you, you might have to create your own rules using ModRewrite. Make sure your host supports Modrewrite and your .htaccess is enabled.

Note: there are probably already rules enabled to allow the clean urls provided by wordpress in the first place, you might just have to add some new ones.

By: singingfish

singingfish — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:34:26 -0800

Mod-rewrite is your friend.

The regular expression to rewrite is going to be something like the following (untested and perl regular expression syntax so probably wrong for mod_rewrite):

from:

http://www.domain.com/media/paper143/news/(\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{1,2})/OutAndAbout/(\w|\.)-\d+.shtml

to:

http://www.domain.com/$1/$2

note you need an extra bit of logic to translate the dots in the first version of the end of the url ($2) to dashes in the new version.

Anyway that's a start with mod_rewrite.

By: Taken Outtacontext

Taken Outtacontext — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:12:33 -0800

How about a 301 redirect?