Using Redirects after an Import from MovableType

  • madberg

    (@madberg)


    16 years ago

    I’m in the process of moving my work blog from one host where I have a MovableType installation to another host where I have a WordPress 2.5 installation. It’s important to me to keep the backlinks correct. None of the suggestions in the conversion guide made sense in my situation, so I bit the bullet and just built (laboriously) a redirect page for each legacy MT URL. So if someone found their way to a URL in the MT style, I would have a redirect page there to move them to the corresponding entry in WordPress. This works great!

    But the problem I caused is that I had to build a folder structure from the root level with the date and month, like my WordPress installation (i.e. .. /2007/09/post.html) to correspond to the old MT URLs. So now, however WordPress was dynamically generating its page of posts for a particular month is broken. If I click one of those links, I get a directory of the redirects I put in there.

    I’m happy to build redirects for the index.html file in each of these folders, but what is the destination URL in this situation for a monthly list of posts? Is there any way to do this? Is there something I can do with my .htaccess files to fix this?

    Help, please! Thanks!

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  • hakre

    (@hakre)

    16 years ago

    WordPress calls this “Archive” or “Archives” and with the permalinks structure you named it should be accesible like

    http://webroot.loc/wordpress/2007/08/

    Because the webserver looks for the index that is index.html in your case, index.html will be displayed. That is the situation you describe.

    You could configure the webserver to not take index.html as an indexfile but then your redirects would not work, becasue index.html is not used any longer.

    So the question is if you can find another location then the index.html to put the redirects in. If you’re able to do that, then you can simply delete all the index.html files and wordpress archives work as intendet.

    Note: This is not a .htaccess problem. You made a logical mistake so far that can not be technically solved.

    Thread Starter madberg

    (@madberg)

    16 years ago

    OK – in the end, I solved the problem in a pretty different way. I’m posting here to help anyone else who should get stuck in this situation.

    I couldn’t conceptualize of any way to make the redirect folders not compete with the archives for WordPress. So I just made a new folder and stuck the WP installation one level down, like http://www.example.com/blog. Previously, it was at the root level.

    So I left the 2005, 2006, 2007 folders at the root level so that the redirects work.

    Then I put a new index.html file in the root level redirecting to http://www.example.com/blog.

    So far, so good. I just need to figure out how to notify me readers that the RSS is in a different place . . .

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