By tomgoossens on

We are upgrading our site from 4.7 to drupal 5.

In the new website we deactivate the i18n module so our new url's take the following form:
http://www.mysite.be/?q=node/12 instead of http://www.mysite.be/?q=nl/node/12 (with i18n activated).

Our site counts more than 2000 articles. The problem is dat all the external links will be blind after we desactivate i18n.

Is there a way so that our url's are autmatically forwarded to the new format.

I've already experimented with the .htaccess but that gives me an internal server error.

Kind regards

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bwv’s picture

bwv commented

Have you had a look at the path redirect module?

http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

It might help, although I am not absolutely certain.

You may also want to investigate pathauto.
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SteveTurnbull-1’s picture

SteveTurnbull-1 commented

I haven't done this but I think you'd be better off creating a custom_url_rewrite function (http://api.drupal.org/api/function/custom_url_rewrite/5), this goes in your settings.php file. You can use this to change the $_GET['q'] value without it affecting existing references to your site.

Steve

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tomgoossens commented

I've found the solution by adding the following to my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/?q=nl/node/([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ ?q=node/%1 [L]