19 November 2024

Redirects back in place

When I switched from Wordpress to Windrunner I changed the permalink structure for the blog. Every single piece of content received a new URL.

I made sure to keep the old URLs working by implementing an extensive list of redirects (nearly 400 of them) through the .htaccess file in my root directory. Unfortunately, with Cloudways as your host, that's not a viable option. Among the various functions that watch over your site, one of them routinely regenerates the .htaccess file.

Discovering this was what prompted me to get this site off of Cloudways. But moving to a simple OpenBSD virtual machine using httpd as the webserver, I couldn't just reupload the old .htaccess file. Instead, you need to add the redirects directly to the configuration file for httpd.

That's now in place. Meaning that all the old links to the site should now work and lead to the intended location. Those of you who subscribed to the old feed URLs should hopefully also start seeing updates in your feed reader again.