<html><head><base href="x-msg://15/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As other posters have mentioned, keeping the files in another directory and redirecting using rules in mod_rewrite is usually the most maintainable route.<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div><br><div><div>On 13/01/2011, at 3:24 AM, nan wich wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I should clarify that one. There are many, many redirects, possibly no longer needed) from the old site to the new one because there are search engines and other sites that point to the old addresses.<br> </div><p><font color="#ff007f" size="4" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><em><strong>Nancy</strong></em></font></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><hr size="1"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don</div></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br>I don't think Apache redirects would even need to be removed unless you want a custom 404 page. The '-d' and -f' flags tell the rewrite rule to ignore any real files.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>