You probably want to look into Apache mod_rewrite, if you are running
Apache. It will do exactly what you are looking for.
The alternative is to put a php file in all of the "old" locations
that is really just a single include line that loads the file from
the new location you want to move to.
On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Marc Antony Vose wrote:
Hi there:
I have an old site that has been online for ~7 years, and it is
established, if a bit old and crusty. It's a database-driven
directory of products for the Mac, and it performs reasonably well
in google's search results, and gets a fair amount of traffic.
This site was built before I even had a framework, so it's all
cobbled together, and I'm just now finally building it out to what
I always wanted it to be, while simultaneously moving it to my clean
(er) framework. So, the question is this...
My URLs are all something like www.xyz.com/trigger/0/1/4. I think
at the time I just wanted them to be short.
Now that I'm rebuilding it, I have different needs, because the
site will be structured a bit differently in order to list products
for more platforms. I would like to have www.xyz.com/product/1234/
platform/567. Still short, but makes more sense.
Thing is, the site does receive a great deal of its traffic from
google, and who knows how many bazillion links there are pointing
to various pieces of the site, so I need to implement an
intelligent way to parse the old URLs into the new ones.
But that's not the hard part; the part I am worried about is losing
the search weighting I've built up over the years. I've read that
google ignores 302 redirection codes and doesn't update its index,
so I'm a bit at a loss as how to proceed.
Anyway, wondering if someone could give me advice or share a real-
world example of what they have done in the past.
Cheers,
Marc Vose
http://www.suzerain.com
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