Moving from IIS to Apache

Here is a tricky one

[ryan26]

There may not be any one easy solution to this issue, but I thought I would throw it out there to see if anybody could offer any advise.

- Moving a website from IIS to Apache. Just rewrote the site top-to-bottom from ASP to PHP.

- 500 dynamic pages indexed. All look like page.aspx?fruit=100. New location will be page.php?fruit=100.

Idealy, I would like to 301 all of the dynamic locations to their new location. That WOULD be easy. However, how can I do this given that I will be switching platforms? I cannot host a .aspx page on my Apache server, correct?

Worst case scenario, I move the entire thing to a new domain and start from scratch. However, the damn thing would be sandboxed.

Help! I need somebody! Help!

[jdMorgan]

Using Apache mod_rewrite, you can leave all of your page names unchanged if you like; Simply do a server-internal rewrite and serve page.php when page.aspx is requested. No-one, not visitors, and not search engine robots will be the wiser (nor do they care).

This pretty much takes care of all of your other concerns as well.

Jim

[jorj]

or even better: declare the aspx extension as php-type.

[encyclo]

I'm with jorj: it's a one-liner in httpd.conf or a root-level .htaccess:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .aspx

Just because you're using the file extension .aspx doesn't mean it needs to be .NET underneath. Gives you a little security by obscurity as well, for whatever that's worth.

[ryan26]

Thanks a lot guys. Went with the MIME route.