[WEB4LIB] migrating to php

[Thomas Dowling]

> For some time now we've been discussing the idea of moving our links
> collection to a database and php format for easier management by
> the reference staff.
>
> We've done some testing, and everything looks good. The staff is even
> excited about the web-based forms for adding and deleting links. But
now
> it occurs to me that this is going to mean re-naming a good portion of
our
> files from .html to .php. And as we all know, this breaks the first
web
> commandment of never renaming or moving files and/or directories.
>
> I see in the archives that a few of you have already added this
feature
> (some using php, others using perl). I would be interested to know how
you
> handled the change from .html files to .php or .cgi.
>

If you're using Apache, and if you're able to maintain the other parts
of the directory and file names, you can do a RedirectMatch:

  RedirectMatch permanent /our_cool_links/(.*).html
/our_cool_links/$1.php


http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch for details


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu