.net thinking - DasBlog and DotText coexist?

Monday, January 10, 2005

January 10, 2005

During lunch I started thinking a little bit about how I would roll this over. One thing that came to mind, is, could I make the two co-exist in 1 web site? The main reason I would like to do that is I would love to keep my blog at blog.iceglue.com, and still support both my old links and new ones.

There are a few options I have come up with. First is take a static snapshot of the .text blog, and keep the permalinks up as static sites. Possible, and relatively easy, but lose the .text functionality.

Another idea I had was just to move the new blog to another domain, ie weblogs.iceglue.com, but that solution feels like I am getting beat down by the code.

Another possibility is having both of them co-exist in the same dir, and just munge the http handlers together so the right urls hit the right codebase. This seems like the most flexible, but probably the most technically challenging.

The last idea I had was to move everything over to DasBlog (I will be updating the DotText2DasBlog to handle categories and comments anyway), and then make some http handlers that will redirect the old .text site to the new DasBlog site on a post by post basis. Actually, this one is probably the most challenging, and probably the best solution.

Has anyone gone down this road and not taken the easy way out (new hostname). Any good or bad experiences with any of these ideas? Anyone have any other ideas?

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1:33 PM Eastern Standard Time | Comments [2] | Trackback |

1/23/2005 3:53:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Take a look at the Remapping we have BUILT-IN to dasBlog. I used to have a Radio blog, but I've got RegExs setup and dasBlog automatically handle the redirects to the correct post.
 
 <add matchExpression="(?&lt;basedir&gt;.*?)/fromradio\.ashx\?external_referrer=(?&lt;ext&gt;.*)&amp;url=http\://radio\.weblogs\.com/0106747.*" mapTo="{basedir}/default.aspx?external_referrer={ext}" />
 
 You can create a little bit of JavaScript or a META Refresh tag in your .TEXT templates, and when someone shows up on your old .Text site, they'll be redirected the the CORRECT post on dasBlog.
 
 I switched hostnames when I went from radio to hanselman.com and 95% of my links moved past Radio in google, so the permalinks are all hanselman.com now.

Scott Hanselman |Scott Hanselman

1/23/2005 3:53:01 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I will look into this, but not sure it will quite help in my situation. Here it's the opposite. I currently use blog.iceglue.com for my .text site, and would like to continue to use the same hostname/iis site for dasblog, so .text would never even see the hits. I think I should be able to use the same idea, though, and convert the .text permalinks to dasblog.
 
 Since google will update itself, I might just move to a new hostname, and redirect. It's probably the easiest. I just have to debate with myself how attached I am to blog.iceglue.com.

Aaron Junod |Aaron Junod

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