Hosting
Migrating Away From .Mac
2007-05-21
Apple's homepage.mac.com is nice to get started with, but don't do what I did and build a 130 page site on it. Migrating away from homepage.mac.com is painful: .htaccess files are not recognized, so there is no way to put a 301 permanent redirect on it. There is no custom 404, so any deleted pages just go to a generic Apple 404: no place to put a friendly message telling the user that all the content has moved. Google will now get all confused as it finds the content has gone.
So I'm replacing old pages with individual redirect pages, pretty much by hand. The one remaining problem is replacing more than 500 web pages that represent the permalinks for my home page. These are all in one place and I need to do exactly the same thing to each of them. I would welcome a script (shell, perl, python, Applescript, or anything else I can run) that does the following:
For each html file in the current directory:
Rename the file to "old"+currentfilename
Copy template file to currentfilename
Replace all occurrences of "zzz" in currentfilename with "currentfilename"
The template file is my redirect page. The string zzz in that template file completes a link to the new site.
Any takers?
So I'm replacing old pages with individual redirect pages, pretty much by hand. The one remaining problem is replacing more than 500 web pages that represent the permalinks for my home page. These are all in one place and I need to do exactly the same thing to each of them. I would welcome a script (shell, perl, python, Applescript, or anything else I can run) that does the following:
For each html file in the current directory:
Rename the file to "old"+currentfilename
Copy template file to currentfilename
Replace all occurrences of "zzz" in currentfilename with "currentfilename"
The template file is my redirect page. The string zzz in that template file completes a link to the new site.
Any takers?
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http://www.bagelturf.com
2007-05-19
Since you are reading this, you have made it to the new site: http://www.bagelturf.com. All new content will be posted here, so please update your links, feeds, and bookmarks.
At the old http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/ site all the existing material is still available, but nothing will be updated.
The layout and content links are all exactly the same, so if you want to globally update your links, just replace "homepage.mac.com/bagelturf" with "www.bagelturf.com" and you should be good to go.
One difference between the sites is that I am now publishing with a beta copy of RapidWeaver 3.6. This results in the permalinks being the title of the post, not listed separately. You will also find that the archive and category links have meaningful names now.
At the old http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/ site all the existing material is still available, but nothing will be updated.
The layout and content links are all exactly the same, so if you want to globally update your links, just replace "homepage.mac.com/bagelturf" with "www.bagelturf.com" and you should be good to go.
One difference between the sites is that I am now publishing with a beta copy of RapidWeaver 3.6. This results in the permalinks being the title of the post, not listed separately. You will also find that the archive and category links have meaningful names now.
The Bagelturf site welcomes Donations of any size