How do I deal with old software on my server?

[Timvroom]

I am currently running an old software called gallery2 on my website. I used it for years to showcase some of the work I have done. I switched over to Next Gen gallery some time ago, but I still have my gallery 2 online. Gallery 2 isn't really available on my website anymore unless people find it through search engines. The only reason I didn't delete it years ago was because I didnt know how that would effect my rankings.

At the moment its not working...and instead of figuring out why, Id like to go ahead and remove it.

How should I deal with any dead links? The problem is that I had a few hundred photos on gallery, so there will be an overwhelming number of dead links.

I was thinking of making a new page on my site and just put all of my NextGen galleries on the page... and then just 301 everything that was located at /gallery2 to my new gallery page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Tim

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Tim,

Go with the approach you propose in the post, that's the way it should be done properly to make sure the old pages still will be redirected to a new one, preferably with the 'old' content.