[Techtalk] website overhaul/broken links
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 19 18:47:41 EST 2002
Malcolm-Rannirl wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 10:08 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
>
>>How practical is it, when giving a large, complex Website a complete
>>overhaul and re-design, to find a way to not break all the links?
>
> It depends on how the site is designed. It doesn't have to be that difficult.
> For the small website I admin, I just built a redirect file for all the
> obvious ones, and then I got through the 404 log every so often and add any I
> missed to the file.
>
For a big, complicated site, you may want to set up the new site so that
the namespace is disjoint (read: it's easy to tell if a URL is new or
old.) Then you can use a database or transformation script to generate
the redirects for the old names.
By the way, kudos for taking the time to do this. Far too many sites
don't give a....
-hpa
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