Joomla upgrade and 301s

[Ahkamden]

I'm thinking I should put this here and not in Apache. The issue I'm having is updating and switching to a new component to manage my blog and making url SEF .

Currently on the site the Blog is not SEF. With 1.5 and a SEF component this is going to be easy to do. So my goal is I'll now have example.com/postname.

But right now it is index?com=blog1&p=1 after upgrade the only part of URL that will change is com=blog2, same post # and everything that I can tell. From there though I want to switch to the example.com/postname.

Now should I do a htaccess rewrite from blog1 to blog2 then let the SEF component handle the friendly url, or any other suggestions on how to do this with as little hassle as possible?

[ergophobe]

I don't know the Joomla SEF component, so I'll just say that fewer hops are better than more hops, so at least for your high value pages and highly ranked pages, I would probably create a full 301 to the new URL.

I'm not an SEO, but that's what I would do. And then for pages without a lot of traffic/inbounds, maybe it's not worth it and you can just use a simple regex to catch those URLs