new old urls

[wiseguy]

I'm planning on moving my old site (Drupal 5.7) to Joomla 1.5.

Here's my problem:

I've got a hole bunch of urls with the following pattern

my.domain.com/2005/12/31/very-good-stuff.html

which I want to change to

www.domain.com/2005/12/31/very-good-stuff.html

It's about 200 pages, do I have to do that manually?

Thanks

[chris.p]

Not sure exactly how you want to change it because the examples you gave are the same - unless you're talking about the www factor.

To fix that - the change from non-www to the www fully-qualified format - you use a standard htaccess script. You may find you have to try a couple of variations before you get one that works 100% on your server though.

[wiseguy]

We'ell, the site is on a subdomain - at the moment. I've got quite a few links to single pages, and I would like to keep them. So when someone calls

Code:

MY.domain.com/2005/12/03/very-good-stuff

I want him to end up on the new probably better url

Code:

WWW.domain.com/tricks+tips/very-good-stuff

I'm talking about roughly 200 pages...

[chris.p]

OK, here's some rewrite subdomain to domain scripts.


subdomain >> domain

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.subdomain.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/ [L,R=301]
[redirects subdomain to domain, also fixes www]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/directory/$1
[redirects subdomain.example.com >> example.com/directory/  -- but doesn't fix www]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.sub.example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/directory/$1 [R=301,L]
[as above but fixes www]

You'll have to play around with these, because scripts often have to be changed between servers.