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I spent the better half of the day trying to understand Apache’s mod_rewrite directive, to help convert my permalinks over to a better format.
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# (1 of 1): Dale » bluetrait.com
48 minutes after the fact. (Sat 26 Mar 2005, 5:02 PM CST)
I had the same problem when I changed over to my new permalink model.
My old one looked something like this:
http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/blog/newsid/289
Where as the new one is:
http://www.bluetrait.com/archive/2005/03/26/unicode-character-set/
It was a bit of a pain. Since I kept my old id numbers when I converted the database I decided on a mod_rewrite rule to redirect the old url to the new one, like this:
http://www.bluetrait.com/?id=289
Now that doesn't have the nice new format but. All links on that page refer to:
http://www.bluetrait.com/archive/2005/03/26/unicode-character-set/
So hopefully after a while the old redirects will die down and google will pick up the new ones. There are no places where I directly link: http://www.bluetrait.com/?id=289 or the old style.