Module for 301 redirects from static pages?

Posted by NikLP on January 17, 2007 at 1:12pm

I'm wondering if there would be a way to create a module that would do 301 redirects from static pages to Drupal pages.

That is, if I have a site constructed of old html pages, and I upgrade the client to Drupal, I am in theory faced with having to cut and paste the content from the old page into a node form of some sort. This is fine.

However, in order for the page rank of this old html page to be maintained, I need to point SEs to the new node rather than the old page.

Would it be possible to do this with a module?

Relating to this: http://drupal.org/node/16084

Comments

Import HTML

Posted by funana on January 17, 2007 at 1:41pm

I can't help you with the 301 for static pages, I'm sorry, but as I read about "cut & paste" the old pages, do you know http://drupal.org/project/import_html ?

Edit: Do you have access to your .htaccess file?

Then why don't you use something like this:

Redirect 301 /folder/page.html http://www.domain.com/page

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.htaccess and version control

Posted by harking on April 3, 2007 at 11:51pm

If you are storing your Drupal install in a vcs, updating becomes a pain if you put the redirects into the .htaccess file.

On the other hand, using a .htaccess file is quite a bit faster than loading Drupal just to perform a redirect. ;)

pain?

Posted by greggles on April 4, 2007 at 5:01pm

Can you elaborate on why/how that is a pain? It seems fine to me.

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path redirect

Posted by greggles on January 17, 2007 at 3:26pm

The path redirect module will do this for you. After I've moved sites from static HTML (or another system or...) I like to watch my "page not found" errors for a few days and just create 301 redirects as necessary.

On larger sites with a more automated migration process you can create the 301 redirects in path redirect directly in the database table. I've used that system as well and it worked fine.

http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

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Update:

Posted by NikLP on March 26, 2007 at 3:09pm

FYI anyone who comes across this looking for tips...

globalredirect.module is now at 5.x-1.0 status but you need the dev version (which works fine in my experience)
path_redirect.module is now at 5.x-1.x-dev status - this works fine as far as I can see though

For people managing their own sites, John Forsythe posted this article earlier today, which may be of use to some.

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thanks Path redirect works.

Posted by polishyourimage on April 1, 2011 at 9:34pm

thanks Path redirect works. at first I thought it only redirected internal Drupal paths (because that's what the documentation says), but I tried a regular mypage.html path and it worked, thx!

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