[thelist] wild characters & htaccess

[Carl Edwards]

Try the RedirectMatch directive:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

-Carl Edwards

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Fortune Elkins [mailto:fortune_elkins at summithq.com]
>  Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:43 PM
>  To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>  Subject: [thelist] wild characters & htaccess
>  
>  
>  hiya!
>  
>  i'm thinking of moving my blog and creating a better 
>  architecture. but cleaning up all those old links even in DW 
>  with massive search & replace would be a pain. thus, i'm 
>  thinking of the fabulous .htaccess file.
>  
>  blogger writes to just a generic archives directory. when i 
>  started the blog, i wasn't smart enough to create a yearly 
>  folder and stuff my archives for each year into it. so now i 
>  have tons of archive files that need to be redirected into 
>  neat nice annualized folders: archive2000, archive2001, etc.
>  
>  this process will be totally easy if in the htaccess file i 
>  can use wildcards, so people can get to these files 
>  transparently in their new locations. something like:
>  Redirect  permanent /archives/2002_*.html   
>  http://newsite.com/archive2002/2002_*.html
>  i've seen lots of tutorials on the redirect, 
>  (http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml) but 
>  nothing seems to address the wild character issue. . .
>  
>  it would just save me from re-doing thousands of 
>  interdocument links. i hope.
>  
>  please advise,
>  
>  f
>  
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