Hi all

we've just migrated from one CMS to another and the URLs are all different (yes I know that some people frown on this, but I have to make do with what's in front of me).

However, I have a database table that maps the old URL to the new ones, so I set the Apache error document to a perl script that will look up the mapping and redirect to the new url.

However, it's ocurred to me that I don't know how to get the requested address in my perl script. Dumping the %ENV hash only shows the error document script. Is there a way to get the original request? (mod_perl isn't an option, I'm afraid, otherwise I'd just intercept the request and do the translation before Apache would raise the not found error)

In reply to Website reorg - directing to the new URL by astroboy

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