Best way to update site (complete re-design)

[kwblue]

Hello all,

I currently have a site with PR and I am looking to completely re-design while keeping PR. The site currently has pages like:

[mysite.com...]

This was done with Mambo using a SEO-Friendly tool.

I am re-designing without Mambo and NEED (ok, want very much) to keep the PR while changing over the site.

In addition, the new pages are PHP and I cannot, obviously have the php extension to recreate the site like this.

I need major advice because I am not sure how to do this.

Thanks!

kw

[jonrichd]

You should be able to keep the same link names by creating your new files as index.php - e.g

www.mysite.com/MyPage/index.php

Your server should recognize index.php as the default page for that directory and display it. (you may have to make a change to your server's config to do this - I'm not sure how, but you can find out).

Just make sure that when creating links to this page that you always link to the directory, not to index.php, or you may run into duplicate content problems.

[kwblue]

After a lot of deliberation, I have realized that it is just not going to be possible to implement the solution that is mentioned above.

Is there any way to permanently re-direct an URL such that I will keep PR on inside pages? If I can, then I will have to do that instead.

Please let me know as I am going to change over the site within a week (hopefully).

Thanks!