June 17, 2004

htaccess Fun

Just an update on what I have planned for the Blog Development work. After seeing Professor Oyzon’s To-Do List, I realized that the first thing I need to get cracking on is to figure out an easy-to-implement solution for fixing archive links after switching blogging tools.

After seeing the woes with this, I decided to go with a standard on my site of “http://SITENAME/archives/YYYY/MM/DD/POST_NAME/” – this way I can keep my archive links consistent. However, this doesn’t help when an older implimentation did not follow a newly chosen standard.

Looking at .htaccess rules, I think it should be possible to do this in a fairly neat manner. I REALLY hate making huge static .htacces rule files, so I am exploring other possibilities.

My goal is to have a proposed solution ready by the end of this weekend. If anyone has any added feature requests or something they would like me to look into that is similar to this problem, let me know :)

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