URL rewriting

Are these URL's in HTML/XML- documents? Because, if it is just text that needs to be changed, most advanced HTML-editors can do this on lots of files with just one command.

Sure, but what about outside links.

Much depends on the rights you have to configure the web server here.

If possible, rewrite the httpd.conf file to create a virtual host.

[One such a script is given here:]
http://forums.devshed.com/t12731/s.html

If you don't have permission to tackle the httpd.conf, place a .htaccess file in the old directoy.

I don't have a link to the exact commands in such a file at hand, but it mustn't be that difficult to Google.

I was looking for a .htaccess solution. Probably something like this: http://www.carlsoncarlson.com/dane/archives/2003/06/11/no_more_mod_rewrite_trouble.php

It's just that the whole /(.*) thing is just gobbledegook to me.

As I understand it is just one line with three elements of code you need to use:

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

The first element is the command "Redirect", the second is the relative link to the old file, and the third the full URL of the other file. There has to be a single space between the three elements, and they need to be on one line.

Hope this helps.

That's not what I mean. I know how to rewrite a single URL. I'd like one rule to redirect all urls. Any address of the format mentioned in the original post.

You can't use mod_rewrite for this, the argument part of the url (after the question mark) isn't parsed by mod_rewrite. You could use a script on your document index to do this (perl, php, etc.).

However, you probably want to do it the other way around, which seems more reasonable, i.e. point:

http://prolific.org/archive/yyyy/mm/dd/title_of_article.html

to:

http://prolific.org/?/archive/yyyy/mm/dd/title_of_article.html

To do so put this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(archive/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[^/]*)$ ?$1 [L]

Hmm. I used to have a template index which I used to show the archives in but I'm no longer doing that. Everything's static. So it's the other way around.

There doesn't seem to be a simple solution then. Thanks for the help!

Still not sure why you would want this: if you somehow can put a _dynamic_ url with a question mark in your _static_ archive index, why can't you put one in it without the question mark?
You should get rid of this KnowSpam.net stuff on a comments form though, it's quite offensive.

Sorry, I thought I'd already fixed that Knowspam thing. Too many sites, too many forms, too little time.

You know what, never mind the URL rewriting. I can't seem to explain what I'm trying to do.

No problem, hth. But I still can't see the purpose: a question mark in an url implies a dynamic page hence you can use a script. Is this to disclose your archive?

No problem, hth. But I still can't see the purpose: a question mark in an url implies a dynamic page hence you can use a script. Is this to disclose your archive?

My archives used have the ? in it, but they no longer do. I took it out because it complicated stuff with MT. Now I want to make sure people who bookmarked the /? links end up on the right page.

Ah, that explains it. You could do this, if php is supported.

Rename your old index.html (or whatever) to old_index.html. Create an index.php file with this in it:

<?PHP

if (reset($_GET) == '') {
$a = key($_GET);
if (substr($a, 0, 9) == "/archive/") {header("Location: {$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}$a");exit;}
}
echo implode('', file('old_index.html'));

?>

Thanks, I'll play with that.