Question

I converted a php site to a rails application (on apache2).
The problem is that old sites requests are still coming in.
So the log has a lot of php request.
That may slow down the site.
I think I can filter them out in .htaccess.
But I’m not familiar with that.

Can you help me with that?

Thanks.

Sam

Answer 1

I don’t know how big you website is (amount of pages), but isn’t it a better idea to do a 301 redirect from the old pages to the new ones. This might be extra work, but saves your users from searching for the new page.

This can also be done by .htaccess

Redirect 301 /oldpage.php /newpage.html

Or redirect in the php scripts

<?php
header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.domain.nl/newpage.html" );
exit(0);
?>