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Site Redirects/Rewrites via .htaccess

Submitted by catholicservant on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 1:07pm
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Greetings,

I just moved a website to a completely new hosting provider AND CMS (Joomla to WordPress).

The problem is that I'm getting a number of http requests that are obviously for the OLD site - variations like this - http://www.website.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=3483&Itemid=384

Is there any way to 'redirect' these http requests to my new homepage (index.php). It would have to be a wildcard since there were over 3,000 articles on the old site.

To recap...is it possible to redirect http requests as follows

http://www.website.com/?option=com_content* to http://www.website.com

I'm assuming this would need to be done via the .htaccess file.

Thanks for suggestions!

Drupal Gardens enters Open Public Beta

Submitted by oscatholic on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 3:02pm
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...and now anyone can set up a fresh, hosted Drupal 7 website in seconds—for free.

From Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, and president of Acquia, the company behind Drupal Gardens (basically, a site like wordpress.com, except with more awesome):

Today we’ve reached another important milestone at Acquia: Drupal Gardens is now in open beta. No more beta codes. No more waiting to try the service. Now anyone can access Drupal Gardens and create a free Drupal 7 site!

I expect this service, and others like it, to grow in popularity in the coming years. For many parishes, a site on Drupal Gardens would do 90% of what they'd need (or 100%, if they weren't shooting for the stars...).

And it's free (for basic plans), community-based, and super-easy to use (the theme developer is especially nice). On top of that, you can, at any time, download your entire site and put it on your own web host!

Open Source Catholic Moved to Slicehost [Updated]

Submitted by oscatholic on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 10:02pm
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[Update: An article on Midwestern Mac explaining how I optimized the Slice to serve up OSC without any huge resource-hogging.]

If you can see this article, you're seeing Open Source Catholic served up fresh from Slicehost; all the sites I'm running will eventually be moved over... but for now, I'm working to optimize the Slice using Open Source Catholic as a test site.

In a short time, I'll post some of my problems/solutions, as well as thoughts on hosting providers, for the benefit of other Catholic webdevs looking to save a buck or two and have the best server setup possible!

Want to help offset hosting costs for Open Source Catholic, and use a great host? (Wow, that sounds like market-ese for you!) Go ahead and use our referral code (just click the link) when signing up for your own Slice of server goodness!

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