{"id":1542,"date":"2003-07-31T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/31\/help-wanted-apachephp\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:30:07","slug":"help-wanted-apachephp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/31\/help-wanted-apachephp\/","title":{"rendered":"Help wanted: Apache\/PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m planning on sticking with TypePad as my weblog host once everything opens up officially (tomorrow<\/a>, from the looks of it). However, this poses a bit of a problem. While I’m slowly moving all of my old posts from my old weblog to this new site, there are still lots of links scattered throughout the ‘net that point to the old addresses.<\/p>\n

I think I know of a solution, however, I’m not well enough versed in the intricacies of Apache and PHP to pull it off on my own. So, I’m asking for help!<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’d like to do…<\/p>\n

All of my old posts reside at my personal server at http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/longletter\/<\/a>. It’s a Mac OS X computer running Apache, with PHP enabled.<\/p>\n

I know that Apache can handle redirects, based on rules set up in the httpd.conf file. I also know that pattern matching and text string munging can be carried out in PHP.<\/p>\n

All of my old individual entry pages are stored in my webserver with the following directory structure:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/longletter\/archives\/year\/month\/day\/dirified_post_title.php<\/strong> http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/longletter\/archives\/2003\/07\/31\/help_wanted_apache_php.php<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of the pages on this new site are stored using a similar, but slightly different directory structure:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/year\/month\/truncated_title.html<\/strong> http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/help_wanted_apa.html<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I’m envisioning for the final system is this:<\/p>\n