By andre75 on

I have just set up my first page with Drupal.
Everything went so good that I am thinking about converting my static page:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
to Drupal, since administration has become a Nightmare.
I have a few hunded html files though. Lots of them are indexed by Google and others.
What would be the easiest way to convert (without having to write tons of redirects)?
Is there an automated way or a documentation to help with my case?

Thanks

Andre

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katie1n’s picture

katie1n commented

I too would be interested in the support answer for this. Fingers crossed the answer is relatively simple. Sorry I couldn't help you - I'm very new to Drupal also.

Kate
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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

Don't know if this will help you. Might be worth a try, though:
http://www.hivemindz.com/project/staticHTML

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andre75 commented

I want everything to be fully integrated into drupal, so that adding new content will look exactly the same way as the current stuff.

Andre

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andre75 commented

Not exactly what I was looking for. My goal is to get rid of static pages.
-So I was wondering how to tell google that about 600 indexed html pages and 4000 pictures have moved elsewhere without having to write 4600 mod_rewrites. So anyone who goes to:
www.mysite.com/blabla/xx/picture021.html
gets redicrected to:
www.mysite.com/content1/content2/content3/picturename
-Second question was: How to automate the step of converting the site.

I know its a tricky question. I would even generate the content manually, but the redirect is really important to me, since I don't want to loose my pagerank by serving a bunch of 404 to google and co.

Andre

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jasonwhat commented

just put this in your htaccess

Redirect permanent / http://mynewurl.com/

This will tell cached searches that the file has moved and look for the file protion after the domain name at this new location.

Where "mynewurl.com" is the url of your drupal install. This will redircect to the pages.


Then use the pathauto.module to name all new content similar to the old content something like, mynewsite.com/filename.html . This is a bit tricky but you can choose to have the title as part of the path. That is my best guess next to putting a redirect on every single page.

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andre75 commented

I did not know that i could specify filename.html as part of the path, even though I actually don't have a html. I have to try this.

Andre

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djnz’s picture

djnz commented

http://www.webg8.com/h/wghtml - is this the sort of thing you are looking for?

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andre75 commented

Well the goal is to delete the old html structure. Not sure if this just indexes the html files.

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Maniac8888 commented

I tried the redirect route with Google and found that I lost all of my page rankings. When I moved everything back to where it was, I got the rankings back. I have been told that Google can detect redirects and will not recognize them in the search index. YMMV.

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andre75 commented

I have found out, that the path setting can contain .html. It should therefore be relatively easy to keep all path and html settings while migrating to drupal.
I am still busy with the other site, so I haven't started the conversion yet.
What kind of redirect did you use? I think a 301 redirect will actually do the job. It may take a while for google to recompute all your rankings but I thought inbound links should still count due to the 301.

Andre

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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

The wgHTML module mentioned in the earlier post is available for download now. May be you could give it a whirl and see if it meets your requirements.
http://drupal.org/node/33531

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andre75 commented

My site (the second one in my signature), is a photosite anyways. I will have to set up galleries and make it so, that I can upload content (new pictures) and keep the same look and feel.
Mainly what I need is a good gallery (gallery2 is too much) that supports taxonomy and path alias (I like image module but I don't know how to rearrange pictures) and something to convert my blogger content (journal). Both should be readily available, so converting the site is more a matter of sitting down and spending all the time to do it and creating a good looking theme that switches the banner on top based on content (e.g. I have different banners for different galleries).

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andre75 commented

a search on google on:
site:aguntherphotography.com

reveals this:
Results 1 - 10 of about 10,200 from aguntherphotography.com for

That means google has 10,200 pages indexed (which seems odd as I don't even have those many).
Either way, I would hate to loose that.

Andre

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