Hi, i was thinking of the whole picture of baptiste solution, you say :

"Baptiste: On the new linux hosting set up an .htaccess file in the root of the site directory that redirects all id=xxxx requests to a redirect.php file on your server. The redirect.php file will need to interrogate a database with a table of the mappings and automatically redirect to the correct page via php scripting."

it means that wiithout any credentials, any database access, if you have urls from the site you need to move to,  you can redirect any urls site to another one !?

Hum..i think i miss something ..

Good idea..i'll to make it so , and use excel function.....tks

Many tks for all these explanations..

So, in fact, lazily speaking, i would say that the .htaccess file solution give less work to do (no redirection script) and seems to be quite easy to make (excepting syntax inside .htaccess), so i 'll go for Damien's ..but i need credentials to install it.

Otherwise, if i don't, I'd go for Baptiste's...

Tks a lot...

I'd say yes for the first one and for sure no for the second one...:)

Tks again, so (sorry to repeat)

• your  solution : 1 .htaccess + redirect.php : located at the root of windows platform

• Damien's : 1 .htaccess :located at the root of windows platform

Is that correct ?

Tks to you both  Baptiste placé Damiens Phillips and.

What  do you mean when you say :

"The redirect.php file will load the article (or category as I understood) and do a 301 to the new url."

Is it en .htaccess file to create or a dedicated file.php , or both (redirect.php) ?

Yes, i'll all have to transfer each old article  and i'll give them an unique urls per article..hope that reply your question !

Hi,

Tks to you both Damiens Phillips and Baptiste placé.

But it seems to be a bit confusing for me for 2 reasons : language + technical knowledge !
I confirm that i'll move from windows platform to linux one.

So if i understand :

1/ - htaccess is possible but where will it be located ? I assume at the root of the old platform (windows here..).

2/ - I'll have to crawl each article in order to get each id (by the way, have you got any crawler tool to advise ?)

3/ - For each of these urls i'll have to write such syntax :

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1133$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^newscontent.asp$ ^name-of-the-article$ [L,R=301]

4/ ...800 times ? Or is there a way to tell on 1 line like :
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1133$ + ^id=1134$ + ^id=1197$ ...... [NC]

Tks a lot again

hi,

Please i would need advices (links, tips, tool:generator ?) regarding url rewriting through .htaccess (newbee about it).

It's a "refurbishing" website case  , the domain doesn't change. But the CMS does !

I've got a list of urls (800) with which i don't want to loose rankings on :

Here the type of old url syntax :

http://www.mydomain.com/home/newscontent.asp?id=1133

Here the new url type would be:

http://www.mydomain.com/name-of-the-article
or/and
http://www.mydomain.com/category/Page-2

Tks a lot...