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1. jjg (jjg@sunbeam.city)'s status on Thursday, 27-Dec-2018 08:34:04 EST jjg

   Re - migrating the blog:

   I'm looking for a good way to redirect links to the old site (http://jjg.2soc.net) to where I've archived the content on the new site (https://jasongullickson.com/tags/gullicksonlaboratories/).

   I want to avoid anything that requires much server-side work. Minimally I'll setup a redirect, but it would be cool if there was a simple way to redirect old links directly to the new content location.

   I'm wondering if there's a client-side/JavaScript solution for this or if it will require me to mess-around with server configuration (which I want to avoid for various reasons).

   1. tomasino (tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Dec-2018 08:37:19 EST tomasino

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      @jjg you probably could put an http redirect in the page position of every current page and redirect to the new server, but that won't do much for you with regard to search engines. You should do a proper 301 on the server. If you are running Apache, you might be able to do a careful regex based 301 in just one or two lines depending on the new URL structure

      1. jjg (jjg@sunbeam.city)'s status on Thursday, 27-Dec-2018 08:41:00 EST jjg

         in reply to

         @tomasino

         Cool, I like the idea of using static redirect pages (I'm less concerned about search engines than I am about existing articles/posts/etc. on other sites that link to the original server).

         I might be able to re-use some of the bits I used in the migration to generate those pages automatically...

         Thanks for the tip!