Diggit Drupalextras

This post is an exercise in writing therapy, meant to help me get my head around a specific problem that I’m encountering. I understand that this is a problem well-solved by existing tools – I just need to internalize the process of using them. If you are looking for a tutorial on how to solve this problem, please look elsewhere.

On the other hand, if you are curious about this topic and want to see what I’m thinking, read the details after the jump…

So – what I have is a website which is being moved from a custom (IIS/ASP-based) CMS into Drupal. We are almost ready to launch; the only remaining roadblock is to deal with inbound links to the existing URLs. Users following these soon-to-be-outdated URLs need to end up on the correct page, rather than the site home page or (worse) a 404 error. A specific example is that the URL

http://www.example.com/building.asp?building=587

needs to be sent instead to the new URL

http://www.example.com/node/832

Notes

A few things to note about this rewriting:

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