By JMowery on

So, I had a WordPress blog that had everything on the root domain. Stupid, I know.

Anyways, the current way it was setup with Drupal is like this:
http://www.techindemand.com/2007/08/05/welcome-to-tech-in-demand/

The new way I want it is like this:
http://www.techindemand.com/blog/2007/08/05/welcome-to-tech-in-demaind/

As you can see, with WordPress I had it setup to use the base/yyyy/mm/dd/title

I am using Drupal 6. I had a PageRank of 4, and I don't want to lose it all. I have to recreate the content in Drupal, but I need the pages to direct properly.

Any help is VERY appreciated! :)

Oh, and if you can explain it in a way that a kid could understand, that would also be much help :P

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JMowery’s picture

JMowery commented

Someone please help. I have so much traffic that is missing out.

JMowery’s picture

JMowery commented

I must re-emphasize the fact that I was using WordPress and converted to Drupal.

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sepeck commented

See WordPress Import for a possible migration path.

For enabling content aliases, see Path module, part of Drupal core. Aliasing content is covered in the Getting Started guide.

To automate this process, you will want to investigate Path Auto which requires token module. These have released Drupal 5 versions and development Drupal 6 versions. I do not know the current state of the Drupal 6 versions.

Having everything in the root domain is not stupid, it's merely a design decision (intentional or otherwise).

So, suggestions.... not entirely sure. If you have little existing content then manually rebuilding things is probably the fastest (or you can try the import module). If you are willing to play and take some risks you can see if the Drupal 6 development versions are ready for use, or you can start over using Drupal 5 confident in being able to update to Drupal 6 later when the contributed modules catch up.

-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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JMowery commented

The only question is, sepeck. If I alias the content, would the PageRank carry over?

Would the alias itself act as a permanent redirect in nature? I could manually create all the aliases, but the fact is that technically, all the urls from search engines would be pointing to nothing but a virtual alias.

There is some confusion over if it will work.

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vm commented

The answer to your question is yes. if you alias the path without the /blog/ path to the /blog/ path then traffic will be redirected to the correct path.

Another alternative would be to disable the blog.module create your own blog content type that doesn't use the blog path or

The only other alternative is 301 redirects in your .htaccess file
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