So I recently moved this website onto a new server swapping Textpattern for Habari
The biggest road block that I had to deal with was keeping my old crappy textpattern URLs that I had never changed to nice URLs functional. Which sounds easy enough using some regular expressions to do some mod_rewriting in the .htaccess file (if that in itself sounds easy to you).
The URLs that I was using with textpattern and that are now indexed by google are as follows:
http://www.mindgarden.de/index.php?id=123
which had to redirect to something like
http://www.mindgarden.de/?id=123
The problem being that habari does some heavy rewriting in the .htaccess itself. The guys in the habari IRC channel were incredibly helpful and helped me figure it out. So in case someone out there tries to do what I did, here’s what worked for me in the end:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^w+ /index.php?id=(d+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /?id=%1 [R=301,L]