On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Alan Burlison<[email protected]> wrote: > We know about mod_rewrite, we already use it extensively. Your example > assumes there is a 1:1 mapping from pages in the current portal to the ones > in xwiki, and there isn't. It also assumes that the target page of the > redirect is accessible as a file on the machine doing the redirect, and in > our case it isn't. The target pages are not on the same machine and the > pages are not stored in a filesystem.
I'm not sure why you are making these distinctions. AFAIK, your migration tools are not automatically splitting or joining pages as they migrate, so, for those pages, there is still a 1:1 mapping, and this discussion is focused on only those pages. Apache's mod_rewrite and friends don't operate on "files", they operate on URLs - I take advantage of that to redirect things on my own site from old file URLs into new mediawiki database generated ones with no problems. AFAIK again, redirects can cross machine space boundaries, though there might be another browser roundtrip involved. -John _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
