I'm overhauling a site to use a new URL structure, but don't want the old URLs to 404, instead redirect to the new content.
To complicate things, this is on a shared host where .htaccess
is the only configuration allowed. There are a lot of old URLs, enough that stuffing them all into .htaccess
would be a bad move.
I know the RewriteRule
directives require FollowSymLinks
to be on—does that mean I can make a bunch of symlinks at the locations of the old URLs, that point to their new locations? Would that get Apache to emit a redirect to the new locations?