Thanks, Scott, but you've already lost me. :) If the 'redirects table' is something other than the routes.rb file I've been playing with, could you point me to the right place?
Thanks, Kevin On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Scott Laird wrote: > FWIW, the current Typo trunk can do this, if you fill out the > 'redirects' table correctly. We need to document it and add it to > the converters before 4.0. > > > Scott > > On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Mike Purvis wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> I was moving from a hand-rolled blogging system to Typo. Because >> of my >> Ruby inexperience, I did my permalinks using a simple PHP redirect. I >> recommend this approach. Basically, you want a single RewriteRule in >> your .htaccess file, which will funnel the old requests into a PHP >> file. >> The PHP file will then access the database, look up the date, and >> construct the correct "new" link, and forward the browser there. >> >> To see it in action, try hitting >> http://uwmike.com/archive/proper-forwarding and you can see that >> you end >> up redirected to the MT/Typo-style permalink: >> http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/10/05/proper-forwarding >> >> Your htaccess rule would be like this: >> >> RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/(.*)/?$ /redirect.php?id=$1&name=$2 [QSA,L] >> >> If you'd like the PHP source of the redirection file, just drop me a >> line off-list. (or, perhaps one of the gurus here can share the >> Railsy >> way to do it that doesn't break on upgrades...) >> >> Mike >> >> >> facedown at mac.com wrote: >> >>> I've setup a test install of Typo, imported everything from WP, and >>> have it ready to go except for one thing. On my WP blog, I'm using >>> the following permalink structure: >>> >>> domain.tld/post_id/post_name/ >>> >>> I don't want to break incoming links and need to find a way to keep >>> old links working in order to go live with the Typo install. I've >>> found config/routes.rb and assume I might be able to set >>> something in >>> there to route visitors correctly, but don't know how to go about >>> it. >>> >>> I really don't care about the final structure. IOW, if it's >>> easier to >>> keep the Typo install using the articles/year/mo/day/post_name/ >>> structure while redirecting those who come in on the old links, >>> that's okay. I'm not too concerned about links to category or date >>> archives?only links to individual articles. >>> >>> I appreciate any help you can offer. I've spent much of this >>> afternoon searching the Typo site, reading through the list >>> archives, >>> and searching Google, but don't know that I've hit on the right >>> keywords, yet. If this has been written about elsewhere, I would >>> appreciate the link. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kevin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Typo-list mailing list >>> Typo-list at rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Typo-list mailing list >> Typo-list at rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
