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1/1/2011 10:55 PM
 
I am in the process of assesing a Migration to DNN, in doing this I need to be able to redirect the links to known URLS.

I have...
http://www.virtualrealm.com.au/blogs/...
and want to rewrite this to the same.
http://vr-dev-01:9000/Home/Blog/tabid...

Can some one help me with the command syntax for the URL rewriter built into the DNN install.
 
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1/3/2011 12:11 AM
 
Glenn, fancy running into you here ;)

I would recommend you look at http://www.ifinity.com.au/'s URL Master module. It will allow you to define URLs in a much easier to read/edit format.

Though, as we sorta discussed on twitter earlier. For my conversion from Telligent's Community Server software to DNN I handled things with a sort of hacked solution as an interim. I actually still have CS running on the non-WWW domain, and all incoming requests get redirected to a simple ASPX page that looks up the new blog ID and matches it from the old one. Then it does a 301 transfer to the new URL.

Your other option is to do as you've previously done, mapped your URLs to pages in DNN, for a small number of pages that's okay, for a large site that's a pain in the rear :D

Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
Christoc.com Software Solutions DotNetNuke Module Development, Upgrades and consulting.
dnnCHAT.com a chat room for DotNetNuke discussions
 
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1/3/2011 12:42 AM
 
I have actually taken our twitter talk a little more, started looking at roling my own handler for the move. I have over 1300 blog posts to redirect. In the test site I have done about 100 manually by writing a powershell script to build the pages for me. But I thought I would give the handler a go. :)
 
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1/3/2011 3:11 AM
 
I haven't used Graffiti, but I assume it has a similar DB structure to CommunityServer? Where a blog is a Section (cs_section) and posts go into cs_posts based on SectionId?

If that's the case you should look at the scripts on my CodePlex project.

http://cstodnn.codeplex.com/

It's messy, but with some configuration you could probably make it work. It was designed for CS Forums to DNN Forum conversion, but I used a very similar script years ago when I converted my blog from CS to DNN though I converted to a module called Engage: Publish (because I was the primary developer on that product for 5 years, but no longer).

Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
Christoc.com Software Solutions DotNetNuke Module Development, Upgrades and consulting.
dnnCHAT.com a chat room for DotNetNuke discussions
 
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