Newbie: help with redirection script

Hi,
I decided to completely move my site (currently on IIS) to a new server
(Apache) and a new domain (and structure). i.e. complete change except the
majority of contents.

I want to save my most important incoming links and redirect them to the new
appropriate page as they bring some traffic and have been posted on forums
and referenced by other sites.
e.g. oldsite.com/myblog/post23.htm ==>
newsite.com/content/blog/blog.php?item=234

What would be the best compromise?
I dont care about loosing some *specific* links and just redirect them to
the index.html of the new site. But i would like to keep a few specific
ones.

I am thinking to create an IIS script for the general redirection AND add
the "specific" redirections as well.
I am a complete newbie on IIS (not much better on Apache!...). Can you guide
me with an example or at least a place to read? I posted my question in a
few forums with no response.
The fact that i am moving to Apache should not matter, i just need info on
the redirection.

Any help/links would be greately appreciated.

Since you are moving to Apache, it seems that you should be more
interested in knowing how to do redirections on Apache.

i.e. Change DNS record of oldsite.com to point to the same IP as
newsite.com, then handle the redirections on Apache with Directives
associated with mod_rewrite or mod_redirection.

Otherwise, you'd be stuck with administering redirections on all
servers you ever move from, and that sounds complicated.

This is how I'd classify redirections:
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/08/01/HOWTO_Common_URL_R...rection



//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//



steve wrote:
> Hi,
> I decided to completely move my site (currently on IIS) to a new server
> (Apache) and a new domain (and structure). i.e. complete change except the
> majority of contents.
>
> I want to save my most important incoming links and redirect them to the new
> appropriate page as they bring some traffic and have been posted on forums
> and referenced by other sites.
> e.g. oldsite.com/myblog/post23.htm ==>
> newsite.com/content/blog/blog.php?item=234
>
> What would be the best compromise?
> I dont care about loosing some *specific* links and just redirect them to
> the index.html of the new site. But i would like to keep a few specific
> ones.
>
> I am thinking to create an IIS script for the general redirection AND add
> the "specific" redirections as well.
> I am a complete newbie on IIS (not much better on Apache!...). Can you guide
> me with an example or at least a place to read? I posted my question in a
> few forums with no response.
> The fact that i am moving to Apache should not matter, i just need info on
> the redirection.
>
> Any help/links would be greately appreciated.