I've got dynamic publishing setup, running, rocking, and rolling in MT 3.121. It's creating my category and date-based archives (as well as some infrequently hit index archives).
Two things I'd like to see if I could. First off, here's my .htaccess file:
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Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.htm default.html default.asp /mtview.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mtview.php [L,QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
Redirect Permanent /blog/index.xml http://utterlyboring.com/index.rss2
Redirect Permanent /blog/index.rdf http://utterlyboring.com/index.rss2
Redirect Permanent /blog/ http://utterlyboring.com/
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm default.htm default.html default.asp /mtview.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mtview.php [L,QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
Redirect Permanent /blog/index.xml http://utterlyboring.com/index.rss2
Redirect Permanent /blog/index.rdf http://utterlyboring.com/index.rss2
Redirect Permanent /blog/ http://utterlyboring.com/
I removed the cruft from the .htaccess following Neil's recommendation. The redirect at the end is for my old blog location in the "/blog" directory.
Two things:
1) Because of the dynamic publishing info at the top. mtview.php is handling the 404 requests, which gives me a generic 404 page. I like being creative with my 404 pages (as you can see here and here). Is there any way to have 404 run through my normal 404 page? If I were run run my error document declaration above the MT directives, would that screw anything up, or would the MT directives take priority?
2) Many moons ago, when I restructured my archives to make more useful URLs, I created an .htaccess dump using tutorial here (linking to the Web archive because the site doesn't appear to exist anymore). So I had nearly 1300 entries in my .htaccess file that looked like this:
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Redirect Permanent /blog/archives/000704.php http://utterlyboring.com/archives/2003/06/13/one_weekend_a_month_my_ass.php
Needless to say, that wasn't the ideal solution for it, but I kept it in place at least long enough for Google to make the changes in its database. Since I don't realy want to go back into my old entries where I linked to other entries, is there a way to use mtview.php (or some other php script?) to process these missing ones? The previous filenames, as you can see, are the post's database ID with a php or html extension, plus the leading zeroes (the MT 2.x default). I thought about putting the <$MTLink entry_id="000704"$> in a mass search and replace operation into the entries, but the tag wasn't getting rendered in the entries. Is there any way to get it rendered or is there any other way to pull this off in PHP or with Apache redirects? I know there's somebody here that knows far more about Apache and PHP (Brad comes to mind, because he's a stud, and that's all there is to it 
) that might have a better idea on how to pull this off. Thanks again!
