As other posters have mentioned, keeping the files in another directory and redirecting using rules in mod_rewrite is usually the most maintainable route.

Chris

On 13/01/2011, at 3:24 AM, nan wich wrote:

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.
 

Nancy

 

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From: Don

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.