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redirect 301 via htaccess or php?

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Feb 27.2009

Hi I am redeveloping a big website. The page names of the old site are really bad and so I will be renaming them. There are loads of links pointing to the website so I am planning to do a ‘permanent moved’ 301 redirect.

I was wondering if this is better done via the htaccess file or to do it via php?

I am thinking about doing it via php as there are hundreds of pages and I really don’t want to have to enter all those pages into the htaccess file.

thanks for the advice.

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@MindzaiFeb 27.2009 — I would personally do it via .htaccess. If the list is really huge you can always use PHP to generate the .htaccess file. If you do it purely in PHP and you get any future issues with PHP on the server, suddenly your redirects all break. If you use apache itself, it will only break if someone misconfigures apache, in which case your site is likely to suffer anyway. I imagine it would also be faster to allow apache to handle this than PHP.
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@stephan_gerlachauthorFeb 27.2009 — that's actually a good idea. I will use php to generate the htaccess file. I just really didn't want to have to copy and paste all these redirects into a file.
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