Comments on: Downtime (Until May 1st at least)

By: Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:48:38 +0000

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

-sj

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:18:04 +0000

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

By: Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:50:13 +0000

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

-sj

By: Sean Voisen

Sean Voisen — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:07:53 +0000

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.