On Wednesday 14 December 2005 08:54 am, Philip Neustrom philipn-at-gmail.com |lugod| wrote: > 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.
In this case, I'd suggest using 301 (moved permantly) redirects. > --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 -- Ryan Castellucci - http://ryanc.org/ GPG Key: http://ryanc.org/files/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
