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I’ve got a client who wants—as best as possible—to preserve his site’s URL structure when migrating to EE. The objective is to preserve the Google rankings/indexing associated with specific URLs.

I don’t see this as a major problem but for one thing: many of their URLs have a .jsp extension.

Is there a way to do a universal rewrite on the .jsp extension using an .htaccess instruction or something?

Any thoughts about approach or strategy are very much appreciated.

Just keep the extension. I recently did something like that with .php. Just make sure it doen’s actually get parsed, but EE doesn’t care about the name.

Interesting.

So in the URL field of the entry, you’d simple tack .jsp on the end? How would you prevent the parsing?

See this thread for details. Basically, whenever a .jsp (or .php, in my case) file would be called, I’d have mod_rewrite remove the extension.

The parsing is a server issue, just make sure Apache (or whatever) is not really expecting .jsp files; this would unnecessarily hamper server performance.

Nice one. I’ll have a look at that if the client insists that this is the way they do things. Thanks for the tips, Ingmar.