[Radiant] Subdomains and old urls

Chris Barnes randomutterings at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 16:31:00 CDT 2008


I wouldn't mind working on that if there were enough interest.  Does anyone
else need this?  Also can someone help me to set the blog page of my site to
use a subdomain?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> This sounds like a good candidate for an extension.  The basic strategy
> would be to override either SiteController.show_page or Page.find_by_url to
> search for a page that has the passed legacy URL (you'll need to add a field
> in the database), in the case that the requested URL was not found.  If a
> page is found, do a Permanent redirection (301 IIRC) to the new URL. If it
> isn't found, pass through the FileNotFoundPage or exception.
>
> Sean
>
>
> Chris Barnes wrote:
>
> > I'm currently moving my blog over to Radiant.  I would like to preserve
> > the
> > old links if possible but at the same time move the blog part of the
> > site to
> > a subdomain blog.randomutterings.com.  For example I wrote an article on
> > redundant firewalls and the old url is
> >
> > http://randomutterings.com/articles/2007/06/15/redundant-failover-firewall-with-pf-pfsync-and-carp-on-freebsdI
> > want the new url to be
> >
> > http://blog.randomutterings.com/2007/06/15/redundant-failover-firewall-with-pf-pfsync-and-carp-on-freebsdbut
> > at the same time I would like to have the old url forward the user to
> > the new one if that is possible.  Any suggestions are welcome.
> >
> >
> >
>
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Chris Barnes
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