Easy MovableType to TypePad redirecting

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on September 25, 2003). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Since this weblog used to be managed using MovableType on my personal server, and I’m working on moving all of my old posts over to this weblog (only one year’s worth of posts left to go!), I’ve ended up with most of my posts duplicated in two spots on the ‘net. I’m also still getting a lot of hits to my old site (and the occasional comment) thanks to all the search engines that still point there.

I’d been planning on diving into the arcana of the Apache mod_rewrite module — it’s a very powerful way to tell your server “if someone asks for this page, send them to that page instead” — to redirect all the hits to this new address, but then tonight I discovered a much, much easier solution.

Needless to say, as soon as I get those last years’ worth of posts transferred over, I’ll be setting this method up.