[Web4lib] 301 Redirects question

[Bill Erickson]

If you can define the pages you want to redirect in the form of regular
expressions, the Apache RedirectMatch directive might be the thing you need.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

On 10/12/05, Vishwam Annam <vishwam.annam at wright.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Web4 Lib members,
>
> We use 301 redirects to redirect an old webpage to the new one. We had
> static html pages for our databases, and recently made all of them
> database driven. Due to this, I ended up having around 1,000 or so..
> changed URLs, which needed redirects. If I add all these 1,000 to the
> httd.config file, then the file size gets huge and it can significatly
> impacts the server load.
>
> I was wondering, has any one across the similar problem, if so how you
> hndled this? I am sure, we could create "page moved" pages for these
> links, but that can be tediuous work.
>
> Thanks for any assitance,
>
> Vishwam
>
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