301 Redirect Entire Directory
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Last nite I was up super late moving my blog from /blog/wordpress/ to root/. It was quite the process, but I survived. One of my main worries is that Google has indexed all of my posts and some have been bookmarked by visitors. Instead of those users and Google indexed links being SOL, I needed a way to redirect all users using the old links to the new directory, the root/. Instead of doing a 301 Redirect on each post, I came up with the the following solution.
Add this snippet to your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^blog/wordpress/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
At a high level, when a URL entering my blog contains /blog/wordpress/, it get’s redirected to root/. The $1 takes everything that was after /blog/wordpress/ and adds it to the end of the new URL (root/).
For example:
http://www.interactivebynature.net/blog/wordpress/2011.09.21.breaking-development-in-nashville now becomes http://www.interactivebynature.net/2011.09.21.breaking-development-in-nashville.
You can test it out here:
http://www.interactivebynature.net/blog/wordpress/2011.09.21.breaking-development-in-nashville
How do you handle directory redirects? Let me know in the comments!
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DenverJS
Monday, January 7th, 2013
This month I attended a new meetup called DenverJS that focuses on, you probably guessed it, JavaScript. Being a client-side programmer in Denver, I’m really excited about this one! In this post, I want to briefly review the 2013 kickoff session at Galvanize.
What about DenverJS?
Straight from their meetup profile:
Focused on developing the Javascript community along the Front Range! We welcome any and all interested in Javascript and related technologies. We will be weighted towards node.js and server-side topics to balance out the already awesome Denver HTML5 group.
Tags: Devner, HTML5, JavaScript
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