When I switched from Wordpress to Typo, I faced the issue of keeping my Wordpress permalinks in Typo. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way of doing this. I noticed the ‘redirects’ table in the database, but I could never get it to realy do anything. So, I had to dig in and find the bit of code that controlled the permalinks in Typo.
Typo uses ‘articles’ as it’s base for all posts so I looked in config/routes.rb and found what I needed to change. As you can see from the url of this post, I use ‘content’ as the base of my permalink. So, I changed all the references of ‘articles’ to ‘content’ and all seems to be right in the world.
I changed
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map.connect 'articles', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'index' |
to
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map.connect 'content', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'index' |
and then changed
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map.connect 'articles/:year/:month/:day', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'find_by_date', :year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{1,2}/, :day => /\d{1,2}/ |
to
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map.connect 'content/:year/:month/:day', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'find_by_date', :year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{1,2}/, :day => /\d{1,2}/ |
and so on.
The only thing I haven’t gotten to work is to map the pages. I can change the ‘pages’ map, but it doesn’t act as desired. I only had 3 pages in Wordpress, so I might as well either alias them or premanent redirect in the Apache configuration.
If anybody has some insight, I’d love to here it. Also, still haven’t figured out why mod_rewrite is working like it should.
