301 redirect - apache or php for my case?

Question

I have a blog www.SITE_NAME.com which is hosted in blogger.com, Its almost 4 year old and have better search engine ranking. Most of the traffic came through Google. Now i am redesigning my site in drupal.

So i want to redirect all older links with a 301 to new pages , Since i have nearly 700 pages , i want some logic to apply (and some case i want to redirect manually) . Which is better, using Apache or php? Or any other suggestion?

Note : since my old site is in blogger.com, its path is something like this www.SITE_NAME.com/2007/08/music.html and my new path will be like www.SITE_NAME.com/DYNAMIC_PATH

Answer 1

These scripts should be placed in the .htaccess file.

//*301 Redirect: xyz-site.com to www.xyz-site.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.xyz-site.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.xyz-site.com/$1 [L,R=301]

//*301 Redirect: www.xyz-site.com to xyz-site.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^xyz-site.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://xyz-site.com/$1 [L,R=301]

//*301 Redirect: Redirecting Individual pages

Redirect 301 /previous-page.html http://www.xyz-site.com/new-page.html

Or you can use

Redirect with PHP

<?php
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.xyz-site.com" );
exit(0);
?>