On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Walt Daniels wrote:
We did this for 2 years with most of the old Dreamweaver site still available after we converted to Drupal. I very occasionally updated an old page, but mostly to convert to a 301 to the Drupal side. We finally got rid of all the old html pages a few weeks ago, but are still fixing an occasional not found page where someone linked a new page to an old page. There are some cute tricks to 301 html pages to someplace else that doesn't involve large changes to .htaccess (just one line to run html pages with php in them).
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
then, for example, replace about.html with
<?php // Permanent redirection header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: http://www.example.com/aboutus"); exit(); ?>
I've used URL aliasing for this as well. The alias is about.html for Walt's example above.