I spent a bit of time today redirecting all the old blog posts (from my local Community Server install) to their new location (custom domain on Blogger).
I eventually decided to stop the existing Community Server site and run a blank website in it's place.
I then used the free version of Helicon Tech's ISAPI_Rewrite to redirect all the old Community Server paths to the new Blogger location, a simple robots.txt refirect, and then threw in a wildcard redirect at the end to catch any other links (including comments that I didn't copy across).
It was actually quite easy to do in the end but needed to be done as adsense was still showing 10x more visits to the old blog as opposed to the new one. Also, since the fit of the new 100Mb line, I haven't had the port forwarded to the old server.
I'll run it for a while until all the search engines are updated and I can then finally drop my local server.
The product can be found here:
http://www.isapirewrite.com/
Showing posts with label Blog Transfer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Transfer. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Monday, 2 May 2011
All posts transferred from old Blog
I've now transferred all my posts (by hand!) from the old blog to this one.
Next steps are to transfer selective comments over and then create some permanent redirects from the old blog to here.
I guess I'll leave these redirects on for a few months before I then trash the old blog completely.
Next steps are to transfer selective comments over and then create some permanent redirects from the old blog to here.
I guess I'll leave these redirects on for a few months before I then trash the old blog completely.
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Transfer of Blog progress...
Slow.
I'm having to move each post by hand, and after about 50 or so I get hit by Captcha word verifications:
I'm having to move each post by hand, and after about 50 or so I get hit by Captcha word verifications:
This is slowing it down a little bit, so I'm about 100 out of 300 copied.
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Transistion to Cloud Servers
I'm moving all my locally hosted content to cloud based servers. So far I have moved my email to Google Apps For Your Domain and I have created a new blog (no content yet) to replace this one.
The Gmail move went pretty well as all I had to do was update MX, SPF and some CNAME records. The only non-working part was the start page as Google seem to have dropped support for this. I had actually setup apps before this limitation was implied, and I can activate the start page but it just doesn't work. There are others who mention this and the work-round seems just to use a Google Sites page if you want this. In fact there's quite a complete template for sites, just for this. I don't really need it anyways.
The blog will move slower. I have moved it off to a smaller sevrer for now and I'm trying to find a way to export the posts from CommunityServer to Blogger. I may just have to use the smaller server to setup redirects to the new blog.
The Gmail move went pretty well as all I had to do was update MX, SPF and some CNAME records. The only non-working part was the start page as Google seem to have dropped support for this. I had actually setup apps before this limitation was implied, and I can activate the start page but it just doesn't work. There are others who mention this and the work-round seems just to use a Google Sites page if you want this. In fact there's quite a complete template for sites, just for this. I don't really need it anyways.
The blog will move slower. I have moved it off to a smaller sevrer for now and I'm trying to find a way to export the posts from CommunityServer to Blogger. I may just have to use the smaller server to setup redirects to the new blog.
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