Comments on: Archive Redirects made (more) simple

By: unsquare/dance

unsquare/dance — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:24:32 +0000

Updated and Upgraded
Today I decided on a whim that I wanted to upgrade my version of Movable Type to the newest, brand-spankin'-est one available, so I downloaded the goods and did all the standard upgrading. However, I also decided that I no…

By: adam

adam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I changed my blog config, but I wanted people's links to my archives to continue to resolve to the new location. For example, Rannie has linked to http://www.gessaman.com/history/001068/ which was the old location of my flip gallery script. When I updated my archiving scheme to something that I found more useful, I didn't want to IM him simply to have him update the link. I also didn't want to wait for every search engine on the planet to realize that my archives had moved before I deleted the old output files. That's where this script comes in. It changes old 001068.html archives to point to wherever entry number 1068 has ended up no matter how many times I change my archives. In this case, it ended up here. Of course, I can't change my archives again without re-writing the script to do look-ups by archive name. *grin*

By: Shelagh

Shelagh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I might be missing the point here but why not just change the blog config? I have mine set up so that in the archives there is a dir for each year, they have further subdirs for each month. Within each month the monthly archive is the index and the individual archives are numbered. I use this format-
Individual archives:
<$MTEntryDate format="%Y/%m/"$><$MTEntryID pad="1"$>.php
Monthly archives:
<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/index.php"$>