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Fri Feb 12 14:25:17 2010 EST (-0500 GMT)I changed the URL of my blog!
It all started with mattclare.ca/wordpress because that’s the software I chose to use to use back when I wanted to try this blogging thing out in 2004. Shortly after that I regretted the choice (or lack there of) of the url mattclare.ca/wordpress. A much better choice would have been mattclare.ca/blog
It took a lot of work to get the pretty URLs working, plus there’s the issue of visitors to my blog and search engines still having the old URLs. Because of this I was hesitant to change the URL, but today after a lot of research and modelling, I finally switched the URL. I had been testing redirecting /blog to /wordpress since I re-did the main page of my website, but today I took the big plunge.
The most important thing was to setup the redirect via the Apache web server I use in a way that preserved my Google ranking. The trick (according to Google) is to send the 301 header with the redirect.
The “httpd.conf” config line was
RewriteRule /wordpress(.*) /blog$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Please let me know if you see anything that doesn’t work anymore!
February 17th, 2010 at 20:27
Love the web site. Keep it up!