Comments on: Internet Technology Bleg

By: Kim Scarborough

Kim Scarborough — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:04:44 +0000

I see your server is running Apache, so it shouldn’t be too much trouble. Just have your host put this line in the httpd.conf file:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/coyote_blog/(.*) http://www.coyoteblog.com/$1

Feel free to shoot me an e-mail if you have questions.

By: TJIC

TJIC — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:27:15 +0000

What Eddie and Erik said: you need to use domain rewriting tools. Pretty easy if you’re running apache on your own box. If not, then you need to beg the entity that hosts your site to do it.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:10:36 +0000

Move to WordPress -> http://adamstiles.com/2005/10/painless_switch_from_typepad_to_wordpress/

You can have a corner on my server.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:14:16 +0000

The other comments are correct. You need to do this on the server. So unless you move off typepad you are not going to have much luck.

The first thing which came to mind was symbolic links, however this is a unix/linux feature. You would simply create a symbolic link for each old coyote_blog/whatever to whatever, in the end the content is html files in one location and no broken links. There are probably ways within the webserver to map this as well.

By: ErikTheRed

ErikTheRed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:07:40 +0000

Agreed… pretty tough unless you have control over the box… then it’s just some simple (heh heh) URL rewriting on Apache, or sitting back and wishing you were running Apache if you’re on IIS. Which begs the question – why change everything? If it ain’t broke (and just a little messy)…

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:43:34 +0000

There's nothing you can do with DNS records to change this. "www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog" is not a domain. It's a URL. The domain is the part before the slash. No matter what comes after the slash, it's all the same domain.

What you need is something on your web server that can either alias or redirect URLs, so that a URL of the form "www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/whatever" is either aliased to or redirected to the URL "www.coyoteblog.com/whatever". You do this on your webserver, not through your DNS records (i.e. A and MX and CNAME are of no help to you here at all).

The problem, of course, is that your web server is not yours but TypePad's, and you have only a small degree of control over how it is configured. I don't use TypePad so I can't tell you whether or how what you're asking for can be done. It would be easy on your own webserver; it would be easy for TypePad to do; it may be impossible for you to get TypePad to do it.