Last week, I wrote a therapeutic post about our effort to provide backward-compatibility in the next version of a website, saying that I’d post again with notes on how we ended up solving the problem. This is that post.
To recap, we have almost 800 URLs on the current version of a site that are in the format of
http://www.example.org/foo.asp?foo=123
These URLs are all going to have to redirect (via 301 redirect if possible) to a URL like
http://www.example.org/node/839
In the end, we’ve used the Drupal module path_redirect, which offers the ability to provide everything we need. I wrote a simple script that looked up all 750+ records from the old CMS that powers the current/old website, and populated the path_redirect table in our Drupal database with those shortcuts, and the node/NID path for the new locations. The redirects are set up to respond with 301 Moved Permanently status codes.
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