L. David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 2002-07-07 19:58 +0200, Fabian Guisset wrote: >>Documents written will of course never be lost (unless they are >>desperately out of date). > > Will links be broken? That's just as bad.
There's no reason links should ever break if a smart developer works on the migration. One terriffic approach you can take with Zope (or any CMS-driven web environment with a database behind it) is as follows: 1. Add an attribute called something like "oldURI" to the "document" class in Zope that holds the pages in question. 2. As pages or documents get moved over, note the URIs or URLs on the old system. Put that URI in the field you created, whether you do it automatically during a batch import or manually. 3. When you're done importing a set of pages and want to switch over, run a script that creates all the necessary redirect directives to paste into your old web server's config file. Poof! Nobody gets a 404 and everybody gets to the appropriate page in its new location on the fancy new system, despite the completely different URI-naming scheme and the database sitting behind it. You don't have to (and shouldn't) keep the old site up at all post-migration apart from the list of redirects. There's no reason this process can't be mostly automated, either, for trees and directories of related documents or pages. -- -sk
