I need to do .htaccess tricks that I haven’t yet figured out, and while I may have time to experiment more today, I thought I’d toss it out here. Probably nobody will know, because I’ve had no response from mailing lists that should have people with guru knowledge, but hey.
We had a blog in Expression Engine. It was at blogblivion.com and its URL structure for links to posts went something like:
blogblivion.com/index.php/site/whatever
Those posts are in many cases found in Google search results. If someone clicks one, they now get a not found page generated by WordPress, which we switched to in a blog in the same location as the old blog, but with a different permalink structure.
The Expression Engine blog has moved to a folder, eeblog, so the URL structure for posts is now something like:
blogblivion.com/eeblog/index.php/site/whatever
The same, but inserting the folder into it. Wouldn’t you think a redirect would be simple? And prominently documented?
I need to either modify .htaccess to intercept any request for a URL with the old structure and direct it to the same in the folder eeblog, or I need for the error page handling in WordPress to use PHP or whatever it can use to detect a URL clearly looking for the old blog posts and send it along.
If it issues a 301, that’s bonus.
Got interrupted, so I forgot what I was saying, but I think that covers it.
What this is not:
Thanks!
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I know you’re going to think I’m a terd for suggesting… but I assume you’ve checked out the wordpress wiki and support page and all that?
::ducks::
Quack, quack.
Maybe not that specifically, but I’ve been on WP pages as well as EE pages as well as Apache pages and so forth in my travels. I’ve also asked 2 mailing lists of people who in part do web development and extensively do server/network/web admin stuff and ought to number people who’d be able to rattle off the format I’d need.
Basically it looks like I’m stuck spending hours poring over various not-exactly examples and documentation and absorbing enough and experimenting enough to get it right. I have about a dozen tabs open in this browser as we speak, with various sites and forums with related stuff. Need to drop it and check the food & see if the baby is okay and stuff though…