I felt bad leaving my good old cmurray.org blog behind. That was my first crack at writing a blog, the one that let me pretend to be one of the Churbucks, O’Regans, Cahills, or Slaters in this space. I left one last post out there letting people know the site would languish and to please come visit this new site. But even better, I found some tools to help me.
The easiest was to simply edit my Apache configuration file to include a redirect from cmurray.org to northboroughgroup.com.
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.northboroughgroup.com/blog/
Using this method rather than a meta refresh tag makes it seamless to the viewer (the refresh tag is often slow to actually take action).
But what of my feed? How do you redirect that? Turns out there is a nifty WordPress plugin called FeedBurner Plugin 1.2. The process was as simple as uploading the code to my site, activating the plugin from the control panel, and then adding the URL of the feed to redirect to. Now anyone who gets the cmurray.org feed through a reader (like Google Reader or BlogLines) will see articles from the northboroughgroup.com feed.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
“pretend to be one of the Churbucks, O’Regans, Cahills, or Slaters in this space”
[to a cheerful tune:] one of these things is not - like - the others… [i.e. thanks, those are three people I'm flattered to be lumped in with.]
Slick work on the redirects.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Actually, Derek, I do put you in that space with the others (and having little ones, I totally appreciate the Sesame Street jingle).
These are the blogs I check and read first every day. And every day you have something interesting, intriguing, thoughtful, and indeed educational … and sometimes something just entertaining and silly. I like that about all you guys. There’s always a great mix of content to make it worth coming back to each day.