Converting from a static site to CMSMS

[deadlyminds]

Hey guys,

This is my firs post at the forums; I was really impressed after all the review about CMSMS and I've decided to make the switch. Now here my problem. I've a large static website (plain .html) of about 300 - 350 pages. I want ot move them all over to CMSMS. My question is if i do so, would all the extensions change , hence affecting my searc hengine rankings. If so, would i still be able to move to a CMS and keep all the existing extensions as HTML so that it doesn't dent my rankings.


Please help me out.

Thanks

[tsw]

You can use modrewrite to keep the urls whatever you want.

config.php has a setting $config['page_extension'] = ''; which you can set to .html

hope this helps

[Pierre M.]

An automatic mass importer of valid plain html would be cool.

PM

[tsw]

its a bit harder than you might think, what content should be imported and what left out? and so on

Im (trying) to work with webservice interface for inserting pages and so on, after its ready small perl script could insert all pages (or any other language you prefer) Just have to find more time....

[deeve007]

Your best solution when upgrading is not usually to copy all pages exactly. Surely there is content that is outdated, or should be reviewed, or site structure that could be improved? And whatever you come up with make sure you script it so anyone coming to a page that no longer exists is redirected to a page with the relevant content.