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Apr 22nd, 2005

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Downtime (Until May 1st at least)

As of sometime this weekend, I will be shutting down the site, in preperation for the May 1st Reboot. I will be installing TextPattern, updating .htaccess files, etc etc etc… So things might get a bit wonky. I will most likely delete the entire FTP in an effort to clean things up. Things like my Text Editor, the Flash 8 video, etc will be staying online, but other than that, expect a 404.

Wish me luck, and see you all on May 1st with a new design.

PS – Does anyone have any suggestions on how I will redirect my old URLs (http://www.joshdura.com/archives/category/entry_name.html) to the correct TextPattern URL? I think Mod Rewrite is the solution, but have no friggin clue how I would go about this… Any suggestions?

4 Responses to 'Downtime (Until May 1st at least)'


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  1. mod_rewrite would work, but would also require a bit of work I think. What I did was create a 404 page that uses PHP to grab the tail end of the old URI (since that has the title of what you’re looking for) and run a search with the title. This is with Wordpress, but I would think you could do the same with Textpattern.

    Not a perfect solution, but it seems to work fine for most people.

    Sean Voisen

    22 Apr 05 at 1:07 pm

  2. .. lots of regular expressions if you want the transition to be nearly flawless, otherwise I like Sean’s idea.

    -sj

    Scott Janousek

    22 Apr 05 at 1:50 pm

  3. Acctually it’s not that hard. Take a look at this example:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^archives/(personal|flash|conferences|design|other|games)/(.+\.php)$ /index.php?archives=$1&post=$2 [R]

    The rewrite rule takes any requests made for archives/categoryname/postname.php and redirects them to index.php?archives=categoryname&post=postname.php

    Rasmus

    22 Apr 05 at 2:18 pm

  4. Josh, what are the reasons you are going with TextPattern … and what are you using now? Just curious.

    -sj

    Scott Janousek

    23 Apr 05 at 12:48 pm

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