[website-discuss] [osol-discuss] request: Prepare your os.org content for migration to XWiki

[Elaine Ashton]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Hugh McIntyre wrote:

> Elaine Ashton wrote:
>> I AM thinking of the end users as if we would do a URI rewrite for  
>> 10-20,000 pages, this would entail the server scanning /every/ rule  
>> to match against before finally serving up the page. In the battle  
>> of glacial server vs. broken link on a zippy server, the zippy  
>> server wins.
>
> You could obviously do a database lookup to go from old->new, rather  
> than a log list of rewrite rules, for performance.  For example in  
> mod_perl.  The database of old->new conversion mappings gets created  
> once when the site is migrated.
>
> And if the URL space is organized appropriately, you can make sure  
> that only old pages go through this database lookup, for example a  
> top level rule that this only kicks in for pages starting with /os/  
> (and not using this prefix for the new site).

Have you done this yourself on a high-traffic production-level  
webserver?

e.