Does all your "old" urls have .htm on the end ??and you don't have any
existing .htm file ??
If yes just use the approach that I suggested with my first answer.

If you have any existing .htm file just add "file exists rule" and place it
above that redirection one, set the handler to "static".
01-11-2011 19:56 użytkownik "Etienne Desautels" <[email protected]> napisał:

>
> Thanks for answering.
>
> On 2011-11-01, at 02:53, Daniel Lo Nigro wrote:
>
> One simple way I can think of, I didn't test this though:
>
>    - Create a final "File Exists" behaviour using "List & Send" handler
>    to serve all your pages
>    - Change the default behaviour to use the "Redirection" handler"
>    - Add all your pages as regular expressions (eg. /home\.html) to this
>    behaviour
>
> If I understand correctly, this will not work because the file doesn't
> exists! So the rule will not catch 'home.htm' that should be redirected to
> 'index.html' ('home.htm' doesn't exists).
>
> Another option is to create a "Not file exists" rule (by creating a File
> Exists rule and then clicking the "NOT" button). But I assume one of these
> is what you're already doing.
>
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work either because it will by applied to all
> files that don't exists, but in general these requests should be handle by
> my Django app.
>
> By "bit heavy" did you mean it was causing performance issues, or are you
> just worried about potential performance impacts?
>
>
> No, I mean "A bit heavy to write and maintain". If I could do simple list
> of matches and redirections, it will be more light!
>
> Another option is to create a script (for example, a PHP script) and
> redirect all 404s to it, and have the script try to work out where to
> redirect to. This would essentially move all the redirect logic into a
> single script, and might end up more efficient than using a large number of
> regular expressions (as you can do simple string matching in your script).
> This can easily be done by using the "custom redirections" option on the
> "error handler" tab and adding an internal 404 redirect to /404.php (or
> whatever you call the script).
>
>
> I know I can do this kind of approach with my Django app, but I find it
> stupid to handle that at the application level when is just a list of
> matches with redirections. It's a nice job for a web server.
>
> I found a new solution that is a little bit better. I'm using the Full
> Path Rule, adding one path for each bad URL, and adding a new Regex for
> each file in the Redirection Handler. This way I only have one Rule. It's
> mostly a list of matching URL with redirections but I have to copy the bad
> URL 2 times (in the rule and then in the handler) and in the handler I need
> to write it as a Regex. I also need to be careful that a Regex will not
> match another URL in the list.
>
> In the Rule tab:
>
> Full Path
>
> - /home.htm
> - /about_us.htm
> - ...
>
>
> And in the Handler tab:
>
> Redirection
>
> - External  |  /home\.htm$  |  index.html
> - External  |  /about_us\.htm$  |  about.html
> - ...
>
>
> Etienne
>
>  - Daniel
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Etienne Desautels <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How I'm supposed to do simple page redirections in Cherokee.
>>
>> For example if I have some old pages/URL that no longer exits and I want
>> the redirect theses URL to other existing URL like:
>>
>> /home.htm -> /index.html
>> /about_us.htm -> about.html
>> ...
>>
>> I have like 20 or more redirections like this to do. The only way I found
>> right now is to create a new Regex Rule for each URL with a redirection
>> Regex Handler. But I found this solution a bit heavy.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Etienne
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