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I have moved my old website from static html pages to drupal. Now I want to redirect old pages that I now get 404 errors upon request, to new drupal nodes.

What is the best approach to do this and how? Can it be done using .htaccess directives?

Hamid
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If you don't know what the address was, making a catch-all url would be a good way but that may cause some problems to drupal's working parts.

If you know the url of the old pages you can create a simple map or just simple rules with the .htaccess would be the safer route.

An example of catch-all would be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php$
RewriteRule . index.php

The above rules would redirect anything that is not a existent file or folder within your domain and not index.php and redirect it do index.php.

The other way would be knowing the urls and doing something like this:

RewriteEngine on
# screenshot's page
RewriteRule ^(screenshot.html)$ index.php?section=screenshot [R=301,L]

There might be other ways too but these 2 were what i could thing right away.

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  • Thanks. The latter is what I was looking for and it works fine, but it actually rewrites the URL rather than forwarding it. I want the new URL to be seen in browser's address bar. Any ideas? – Hamid Oct 06 '10 at 15:40
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    fixed :) all you need is the flag 'R=301,' with L becoming `[R=301,L]` the 301 means it is a permanent redirect and if u use 302 it means temporary redirect. – Prix Oct 06 '10 at 15:52
  • Works like a charm. Thanks. What does `L` mean? – Hamid Oct 06 '10 at 16:00
  • [L] means that this rule is the last one if rule is applied – Prix Oct 06 '10 at 17:11