DasBlog Links Finally Rewritten
Driven by the mocking of a colleague for never having done the stupid gruntwork of rewriting my old DasBlog-based permalinks, I stole Jon Udell’s python code and ran it over the 8+ year history of Knowing.net. I think it mostly worked, although internal links between posts remain broken, since the DasBlog GUID-based identifiers have been lost.
I suppose I should now write a program to monitor the 404s and do manual fixups as traffic calls for, but I’m not even going to pretend that “I’ll get to that in a couple days.”
I apologize if this caused any spurious “There are 2100 new posts” messages from your newsreader.
I haven’t seen an increase in new posts in Google Reader…
One good way to find, though just as laborious as looking for 404s in your logs, is to use Google’s Webmaster tools console to find pages that are “Not Found”. You can also find all of the links into your site too. If a page has links but is “not found” then you hook it up with a redirect. If you do that for a while you’ll quickly pick up your missing redirects. On a smallish site I’ve got around 300-400 Apache redirects in my config. It takes quite a lot of work to keep up with.