In that case I would probablyjust add something to index.cfm to look for
newsid (and any others) and convert it to the relevant objectid. If you add
a field to news (and the others) to store the old id it should be simple.

Blair


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Marco van den Oever <
[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, i think a rewrite rule is indeed the best way huh. So a simple if
> statement on the articles read page that redirects to the new URL's?
>
> The URL's are now generated like "index.cfm?newsid=1200&read=1" so
> it's all dynamically and not static.
>
> On Jul 27, 2:46 am, Blair McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You could write you're own script to import the legacy URLs - the farFU
> > content type is fairly straight forward. Are the legacy URLs in a
> database
> > that would make it easier to map them to the new FarCry objects? It will
> be
> > quite challenging if the links have to be copied out of HTML markup but
> > possible. I have written migration scripts to spider static websites and
> > import the content into FarCry, so in theory you could do something
> similar
> > that imported URLs too.
> >
> > Blair
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Marco van den Oever <
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > I am moving one of my own sites to farcry (good idea huh), it's a news
> > > site with over 1000 articles and pretty well ranked in search results
> > > etc.
> >
> > > Of course i want to move this site to farcry so i can have fun with
> > > make it an even better site with more options etc, but i am concerned
> > > with loosing search results due to change of URL's markup.
> >
> > > I could use the SEF URL's option to manually add the old link? But
> > > then again not want to do that for over 1000 times.
> >
> > > Anyone have any experience switching a site to farcry and preserve the
> > > URL's or make the change smoothly???
> >
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