Urls rewriting "how to" with .htaccess

[mozllo]

Hi, i was thinking of the whole picture of baptiste solution, you say :

"Baptiste: On the new linux hosting set up an .htaccess file in the root of the site directory that redirects all id=xxxx requests to a redirect.php file on your server. The redirect.php file will need to interrogate a database with a table of the mappings and automatically redirect to the correct page via php scripting."

it means that wiithout any credentials, any database access, if you have urls from the site you need to move to,  you can redirect any urls site to another one !?

Hum..i think i miss something ..

[baptisteplace]

You should get all the url of the old site with Xenu's Link Sleuth, then create a PHP array of oldUrl => newUrl and put it in your redirect script.

So you have in the htaccess :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/home/newscontent.asp
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ redirect.php?id=%1 [L]

In the redirect.php file, you have :

$redirect = array("/home/newscontent.asp?id=1133" => "/name-of-the-article"); // 800 times (for all url)

if(isset($redirect[$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']])) {
    header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently", false, 301);
    header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/".$redirect[$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']]);
    exit();
}

// Send a 404 if you don't have a redirect