MostlyGeek

I have so many projects on the go these days that I am sometimes feel like I’m running around in circles. Just this week:

• My PowerBook’s harddrive crashed (and was repaired). I am a bigger fan of MacStation now. Eric their mac technician always takes great care of me. I dropped off my PowerBook, said the hard drive was dead, and in two days he had a new one in and I was ready to go. The last time I had a problem the turn around time was just as quick! Excellent. I highly recommend them.
• I got a cold from my cute little niece. It’s gone now.
• I had some hard core hayfever. It’s that season. It seems to have passed as well.
• I changed over my blog to WordPress, that was fairly easy. I spent most of my time looking for themes. I finally settled on one that fit my needs. I’ll probably change it around every so often.

However, this would not be MostlyGeek if there wasn’t something technical in this post. Since I was running Drupal before, and had posted some very useful content, I wanted to make sure that it stayed available. I figured the easiest way to do that is with mod_proxy. I moved the Drupal site to http://old.mostlygeek.com, and pointed all requests for /node/*, /taxonomy/*, /files/* to the old archive domain.

This is essentially how to do it (added to my Virtual Host definition):

    # Redirect old Feed URLs
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^/node/feed /redir_feed [PT]
    RewriteRule ^/taxonomy/term/[0-9]+/feed /redir_feed [PT]
    Redirect permanent /redir_feed http://www.mostlygeek.com/feed
    ProxyRequests Off

    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
    

    ProxyPass /node http://old.mostlygeek.com/node
    ProxyPassReverse /node http://old.mostlygeek.com/node

    ProxyPass /taxonomy http://old.mostlygeek.com/taxonomy
    ProxyPassReverse /taxonomy http://old.mostlygeek.com/taxonomy

    ProxyPass /files http://old.mostlygeek.com/files/
    ProxyPassReverse /files http://old.mostlygeek.com/files/