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I’m replacing a ColdFusion website with an EE site and wish to ensure that existing external links to ColdFusion pages are automatically redirected properly. For example, I wan’t an existing link like this:

http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=artist&artist=131

To return a specific category URL like this:

http://www.domain.com/index.php/artists/illustrator/illustrator-name/

I would like to hard code each ColdFusion URL, telling it which new EE URL to point to. Is there a way of doing this by placing an index.cfm file on my server with some PHP in? This would be similar to the ‘What about other files?’ info listed here:

http://expressionengine.com/docs/installation/pmachine_migration.html

I’m not a PHP expert and really appreciate any advice anyone can give!

It looks like this is a job for an htaccess file.  Try looking here to see if you can write this yourself: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#redirects.  If you need any help, I can guide you along 😊.

Thanks for the tip. I actually had some help from the fantastic support staff at EngineHosting (where the site is hosted) and we finally came up with a solution. This is a dummy version of the code we added to the .htaccess file:

# initialize and enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on

# redirect files and directories

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^fuseaction=artist&artist=131 [NC] 
RewriteRule ^index.cfm$ <a href="http://www.domain.com/index.php/artists/illustrator/illustrator-name/">http://www.domain.com/index.php/artists/illustrator/illustrator-name/</a>? [R=301,L]

Obviously I used the correct URL details, not the dummy URL above. I repeated the redirection instruction for each individual page that needed redirecting.