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I am redesigning my personal site and I plan on making a fundamental change to the URL structure to better fit with new content. I don’t have that many posts ( < 5 !) so the change would be ok. However I get a lot of traffic to one particular post and I don’t want to loose that.

Basically I have http://jameswhittaker.com/blog/article-title and I wish to change that to http://jameswhittaker.com/notebook/article-title

I would like to forward all traffic heading for /blog/ to /notebook/. i understand this can be done using .htaccess but I don’t have a clue!

I also have complete root access to the server so would this be better done at the apache config file?

I’m looking for advice or any good links to point me in the right direction.

Thanks all.

Aftershock:

In a .htaccess file that resides in the same folder as the main index.php, you need to do:

redirect 301 /blog/article-title <a href="http://www.example.com/notebook/article-title">http://www.example.com/notebook/article-title</a>

You can get a little crazier with modrewrite, but I’m by no means an expert with that, so I don’t want to give false info.

Hope that helps,

-greg

Thanks

I don’t suppose anyone knows the syntax for re-driecting a whole directory?

Example /blog/ to /notebook/?

This should be a good starting point:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3431085.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=folder+redirect+in+apache&btnG=Search

But, like I said before, i’m not good with rewrites like that, but that first link is definitely worth a shot.  If you get a 500 error, you can always just delete the .htaccess file.  =)

-greg

Thanks

I don’t suppose anyone knows the syntax for re-driecting a whole directory?

Example /blog/ to /notebook/?

I don’t suppose anyone knows the syntax for re-driecting a whole directory?

Example /blog/ to /notebook/?

Try this:

redirect 301 /blog/(.*) <a href="http://www.example.com/notebook/$1">http://www.example.com/notebook/$1</a>

If that doesn’t work, you actually need to read up on it, I am afraid.

ETA: Does redirect even support regexes? Just try it.

Thanks for the input guys, I’ll try them out on my test server and report back. 😊