Add vice, please

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:04:37 +0100

Just zis Guy said:

What ho, gentlefolks. I am moving my website content form Lotus
Domino, which I used because I was a Domino developer, to Mediawiki
software, to make it easier to update. I have a couple of technical
issues with Mediawiki but the most pressing problem I have now is
this:

For pages which are not yet ported from the old site, which is most
of them,

Set a 404 ErrorDocument that either redirects to the old versions
or reverse-proxies them onto the new site. You're using Apache,
so that's straightforward enough, even on windoze.

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not me guv

you know? said:

See the difference? One is a template saying look here for the old
content, the other is a search page. I can't make up my mind, and
I'm trying to make some new content as I do the work, as well as
updating things, so it will not be a five minute job. The "not done
yet" list is likely to be quite long for a while.

Alternatively, should I simply leave the old site online until I've
done it all?

If you can generate a list of the WikiNames from the old site with a Bit
of Perl, you could shove the definitions into an easily-managable
..htaccess or Include file and throw 302 Found responses back at the user
for just a specific, listed set of pages.

Home and the rest of the buttons on the old site should probably direct
the user to the equivalent page on the new :80 site. If Domino can't be
made to do that, and/or it generates redirects in terms of itself,
Nick's reverse proxy idea is probably better. ProxyPassReverse is your
friend.

If you do the reverse-proxy trick, you can hide the old server on an
RFC1918 URI.

For ease of maintenance, I still suggest maintaining the list as a
single, separate text file using Include.

--
Andrew Chadwick

Quoted message said:

For pages which are not yet ported from the old site, which is most
of them, should I do this:

http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Advocacy

or this:

http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/CageGlass

We're either presented with a link to the exact information we wanted, or
told to feck off and google for it. Is there really a choice to be made
here? 😉

On 30 Jul 2007 10:05:03 GMT
Mark
<pleasegivegenerously@warmail*turn_up_the_heat_to_reply*.com.invalid>

Quoted message said:

We're either presented with a link to the exact information we
wanted, or told to feck off and google for it. Is there really a
choice to be made here? 😉

/me suspects you *looked*!

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not me guv