toucheatout 2006-05-19 11:10 Web
Nobody likes a page, referenced from other sites, bookmarks or search engines, become unavailable at some point. Therefore, before changing a webpage URL, it is good to use apache RedirectPermanent or RewriteCond/RewriteRule to let users that still use the obsolete reference gain access to the right content (or a replacement for the target URL).
This can be done from a htaccess if allowed in the apache configuration - and of course in apache's conf as well, usually at the VirtualHost level.