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I moved my site to ee recently and I have a few stories that are popular and recieve good traffic daily. Is there a way to redirect a user to a proper article page when the one they are looking for is not available ? Can someone explain to me how 404 pages work also?

example.

Incoming url

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/2007/02/05/crazy-billboard/">http://www.mysite.com/2007/02/05/crazy-billboard/</a>

New URL should be

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/articles/crazy_billboard/">http://www.mysite.com/articles/crazy_billboard/</a>

Or can someone help me make it so that articles is then sorted by date like so.

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/articles/2007/02/05/crazy_billboard/">http://www.mysite.com/articles/2007/02/05/crazy_billboard/</a>

I’m thinking htaccess and a 301 permanent redirect is probably the way to go.  If there are just a few articles, you could do it easily by hand, manually mapping the urls.  Someone better with htaccess and pattern matching could probably come up with a way to redirect everything that meets the /xxxx/xx/title-here to /articles/title_here .  But I’m not the good with regular expressions.