[support] Preserving old urls after migration

[Lev Lafayette]

----- "Mutuku Ndeti" <jnmutuku at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am migration from a non drupal site to a drupal site. I want when
> users still access the old urls (in the form index.php?cat=cat1&id-23)
> to be forwarded to the new drupal urls.
> 
> How do I do this

There is no easy way to change between different content management 
systems.

I would suggest making VERY CAREFUL use of the Scanner module. 

http://drupal.org/project/scanner

Back up your database and backup often with unique file names!

Hope this helps!


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Lev Lafayette, Systems Administrator, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, lev at vpac.org
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