redirect a lot of pages

planeth · 2014-04-16 09:06:23

Hello all,

i need to permanent redirect a whole lot of pages on a page by page basis.
urls are in the form of /some-page?id=xy and i need to redirect to /my-new-page

I first tried to set a RewriteCond / RewriteRule in a .htaccess for each page, but apache seems to choke on it after 3 or 4 rules.

what do you think would be the best to accomplish this ?
Try some apache voodoo i don’t know about ?
Write some callback function on pretext event to analyses each url, set the right header and redirect ?

Thanks for any insight.

colak · 2014-04-16 09:15:38

Hi, are these redirects due to your changing the permanent link mode? If this is the case I would recommend installing zem_redirect

planeth · 2014-04-16 09:19:29

No it’s a complete overhaul of a website.
We’re switching to Textpattern from a proprietary solution and the whole architecture has been redone.

planeth · 2014-04-16 09:41:45

Forget my question.
Had a typo in my file :)

Anyway wandering if 20+ successive rewriterules in .htaccess is bad for performance ..

trenc · 2014-04-16 10:17:34

planeth wrote #280269:

Anyway wandering if 20+ successive rewriterules in .htaccess is bad for performance ..

No. 20+ is managable. I’ve seen .htaccess with 300 rewrite rules and with no remarkable performance drop. But you could try to use summarized rules with regexes, if possible. And/Or – if possible too – flag each rule with the L (last), so that the mechanism stops looping through the rest of the (unused) rules.

planeth · 2014-04-17 13:56:24

trenc wrote #280270:

No. 20+ is managable.

Good :)

But you could try to use summarized rules with regexes, if possible.

Tried that too but very few cases are in this category

flag each rule with the L (last), so that the mechanism stops looping through the rest of the (unused) rules.

done that too

Thanks for the good advice !

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