technical question re: websites

[swan_tower]

Is there any convenient way to do a mass-redirect on various URLs? Basically, I want to simplify the directory structure of my site, such that everything which used to be swantower.com/marie/X becomes swantower.com/X. But people may have bookmarked particular links, and I'd like them to be automatically redirected when they try the old URL. What I don't know is whether there's any simple method for achieving this. Help?

Comments

[ckd]

Depends on your server setup; with Apache httpd, this would be a fairly simple one-liner using RedirectMatch.

Untested:
RedirectMatch permanent /marie(/.*) http://swantower.com$1

[jsbangs.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yup, this is the way to do it. However, depending on your hosting company, it may be difficult to convince them to do this for you.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Since my webserver lives in my brother's basement, I'd rate my odds as pretty good. :-)