is this possible to do?

[mike82]

I'm about to launch a new site (a redesign of my old site), and I want to keep parts of the old site online. There are a lot of files for the old site. My question is... can I some how store these in a separate folder or directory without changing their path on the stie in anyway? I realize this may be a longshot but I thought i'd ask anyway.

For example in ftp I have all the new files...and I want to maybe have a folder called 'old' and keep all the old ones in there. but I DONT want their path to be changed i.e. from mysite.com/file.htm to mysite.com/old/file.htm. is there some kind of loophole to work around this?

 

[BeerHat]

YOu can move them and just redirect.

 

[mike82]

I thought about that but am concerned.... some of the pages have a really high ranking in the serps, and I dont want to change that.. i realize 301 is the way to go if i took this route but if there is some other option i'd love to hear it.

 

[BeerHat]

I thought about that but am concerned.... some of the pages have a really high ranking in the serps, and I dont want to change that.. i realize 301 is the way to go if i took this route but if there is some other option i'd love to hear it.

Leave everything where it is and just add new directories to put the new stuff.

 

[spyderman4g63]

Rewriting the file paths in your .htaccess file is a possiblity.

 

[mike82]

Rewriting the file paths in your .htaccess file is a possiblity.

what do you mean by this?

 

[web2jerk]

no,are not impossible...i am not sure who is the perfect solution...but i am sure that is not impossible.

 

[pig2cat]

what do you mean by this?

edit (or make) your .htacces file and add this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^file.html$ old/file.html
RewriteRule ^file1.html$ old/file1.html
RewriteRule ^file2.html$ old/file2.html

 

[yast]

what do you mean by this?

good place to start:
http://www.wickedfire.com/design-development-programming/9363-mod_rewrite-tutorial-first-timer.html

 

[wesley]

You _have_ to redirect, don't leave them up. Your internal links (from the homepage) etc won't post to those pages any more and they will drop in ranking if you don't.