Just a short note to detail a feature that completes the move to the new server. What happens if someone has a link bookmarked or if they find one via a search engine that points to the old site on aaron.isa-geek.org? The solution was really simple: I added the following to the <Directory ...> block for the blog in Apache's httpd.conf:

   Redirect permanent /pivot http://aaron.sakovich.org/blog

This will take any URL that starts with "/pivot", extract the remainder of the line, then append that to the new URL, and send that back to the browser with a 301 message indicating this is a permanent change. Note that I even changed the top level directory of the blog from /pivot... to /blog..., which I think looks a lot nicer.

Done. (Well, almost. I still need to add the new site to my Google webmaster page.)

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[Aaron] (URL) - Thursday, 28 October 2010, 14:11

Looks like I’ve still got some issues with the db and its protections. I’m working through those while I’m also looking at a major upgrade to v2 of PivotX. I hope to get all this worked out in the next few days, at the most!

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This is just an extra step to befuddle the stupid botnets that use systems like this to spam their products. I've not had any problems since implementing other features, but have noticed that some spammers have made it past my first level of defense; this makes a third level that they have to pass What is H2O at -5ºC commonly called?     (Register your username / Log in)
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