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Reorganization Complete

The dust that raised in my last post should have settled by now. I’ve created a few new categories for this blog, to take some of the strain off ‘Miscellany’. If you can’t find something or if anything seems broken, please contact me.

One of the posts that I moved was my explanation of How to Install XEmacs via Fink on OS X Panther, which was the fourth post in my series on my upgrade to Panther. It also happens to be the most popular post on my site right now. It seems I’m the number one Google hit for the search ‘install xemacs fink panther’. (Note to self: WOOHOO!) I really, really didn’t want to kill my only claim to fame by breaking the URL Google was linking to. The redirect plugin for Blosxom did a fine job of letting me set up 301 permanent redirects for all of the pages moved.

Here’s a couple of tips for using the redirect plugin most effectively. First, if you are moving a single post, instead of putting this in your redirect config file (assuming your primary flavor is named .html):

  OldCategory/story.html=>NewCategory/story.html

Use the following:

  OldCategory/story=>NewCategory/story

This will handle the story no matter what flavour is used (including trackbacks).

Secondly, when you move your files around, don’t forget to move your comments! If you are using the writeback plugin, your comments are stored under the writeback directory in your plugin state directory. Each post’s comments are stored in a separate .wb file, in a directory tree that mimics your blosxom categories tree. Any file move for a post requires the corresponding move for the writeback.

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