Scott Rotondo wrote:
Since we've had so much speculation about whether it is feasible or not to redirect URL's from the old os.org structure to the new one, I decided to put together a sample implementation.
We know about mod_rewrite, we already use it extensively. Your example assumes there is a 1:1 mapping from pages in the current portal to the ones in xwiki, and there isn't. It also assumes that the target page of the redirect is accessible as a file on the machine doing the redirect, and in our case it isn't. The target pages are not on the same machine and the pages are not stored in a filesystem.
We can and will be doing redirects, but the environment we have to do them in is significantly more complex than your demo. A lot of the "Why don't you just..." suggestions we've had would work fine in an environment where we were serving up static http pages via Apache, but unfortunately we aren't in that sort of environment.
Thanks for the thought though :-) -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
