Redirect via .htaccess or PHP?

alunsalt · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 3:54 pm
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Is anyone here familiar with .htaccess?

I ask as I’m moving my site from a WordPress blog on my own server to WordPress.com and I’d like to put in redirects so that:
http://archaeoastronomy.co.uk/2006/…
is redirected to –
http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2006/…
My cunning plan is that it doesn’t then look like all inward links are broken.

Except I’ve tried cut ‘n’ pasting a few things in from the web and I’ve had not success. Either .htaccess or a php script to drop into the 2005 and 2006 folders on my server would be helpful if anyone knows of an obvious solution.

Thanks,

Alun
cornell · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 4:00 pm
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Alun

I don’t know if this will help, but googled htaccess redirect and it came back with this:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess7.shtml

As it’s your own server then JS and htaccess mods won’t be a problem. :)

Collin
alunsalt · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 4:26 pm
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Thanks I found that one, but that’s something I’m trying to avoid. If I understand it correctly it means specifying individual entries for 700+ pages. I’m looking for something that can simply swap one server in the URL for another.

I’ll give this a go (http://daringfireball.net/2006/05/htaccess_redirection) as it seems a bit more clearly explained than the other pages I’ve found.
alunsalt · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 4:33 pm
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No that didn’t work either. Looks like I’ll have to sit down with my PHP books.
alunsalt · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 4:40 pm
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Resolved, the answer was obvious in the end, hence my lack of hair. The lines in .htaccess are:
Redirect /2006 http:// archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2006
Redirect /2005 http:// archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2005
without the spaces between // and a
cornell · Member · Jul 4, 2006 at 5:11 pm
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Nice one! :)

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