Are we done with our launch? Not quite. We've got the minimum content up, and people who are going to www.nycircuit.com will instead go to our new site, which is what we want.

However, there are pages on the old site that are being linked to from other sites. People are still going to those old pages without being aware that there is a new site.

What we need to do is this: for each old page, we have to redirect traffic to a new page or to the new home page.

One way to do this is (on Unix/BSD/Linux) is to create a file named .htaccess in the domain root folder and put lines like this into the file:

redirect 301 /mypath/page1.htm http://www.nycircuits.com/newpage1.php

Another way to do this that is a bit more flexible is to use the Joomla OpenSEF extension component. We'll use the latter technique since we want to use "SEF" URLs anyway.

Read on to the next tutorial in this series for an explanation of installing and using the OpenSEF component.