As for search engine ranking: it shouldn't really matter. If you're paranoid you can use a proper http redirect by sending the headers "Status: 302" and "Location: new location" when the old locations are requested. This can be done using mod_alias in apache. Something like "Redirect /foo http://foo2.bar.com/";
With mod_rewrite it looks like there are two seperate but identical files. With mod_alias the http client can tell you're redirecting. Either way it shouldn't matter too much. --Philip Neustrom On 12/14/05, Philip Neustrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll want to use your webserver's rewrite engine to do this. For > apache, it's mod_rewrite. It's pretty straightforward to do, > especially for something like this. > > I believe it'd be something like: > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule ^/foo/(.*)$ /where/your/files/are/on/disk/$1 [L] > > so if bar is in /var/www/foo/bar > > RewriteRule ^/foo/(.*)$ /var/www/foo/$1 [L] > > will reroute request for /foo/x to /var/www/foo/x > > --Philip Neustrom > > On 12/14/05, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a directory on my webserver that contains some fairly popular pages. > > > > i'd like to change the url from > > > > http://www.dirac.org/foo/bar > > > > to > > > > http://www.dirac.org/bar > > > > is there a graceful way to do this and have the info updated by the search > > engines? i hear that google puts higher rankings on urls that are around > > for a long time. anyway of avoiding that reduction in rank? > > > > pete > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
