[wellylug] Use of old links by site visitors

Mark Foster blakjak at blakjak.net
Tue Jan 9 17:55:52 NZDT 2007



On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> John Durham <johndurh at spunge.org> writes:
>
>> After a lot of setting up, and some basic changes, I have been
>> checking visitor statistics for my site. Some of them appear to be
>> trying to view images that used to be in the /images directory (now in
>> the /imgs directory). Without bothering with why they would go for the
>> images directly, I'm curious to know if there is a setting for apache
>> that will divert such attempts to the correct place so that old links
>> might still work? PS: Please don't suggest I create the /images
>> directory again so people can swipe pictures!
>
> There are several solutions:
>

*snip*

You could just leave em broken, force people to do a shift-reload and/or 
hunt for em again. :P





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