So I recently changed the permalink structure of my website.

The purpose of this is so that I get prettier looking links

www.vesco.us/?p=203

vs

http://www.vesco.us/2009/03/technology/scanning-textbooks-and-digitizing-your-library-efficiently.html

It also helps people find my pages with google since google likes the latter more.

However, the problem with doing this is that all your old links become obsolete. A wonderful wordpress plugin resolves this, http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/

However, I noticed after I installed this plugin that my robot.txt file would also redirect back to wordpress causing a “this page cannot be found” to be displayed.

After several hours, I found this solution: place a redirect in your .htaccess file, something like this:

redirect 301 robot.txt http://www.example.com/robot.txt

This has the added benefit of also allowing you to use a real robot.txt file instead of Wordpress’ virtual one that’s managed in from the privacy settings.

Related items

• Save my MySQL?
• Put Every Bill in Congress on a Wiki
• Why Not Have The Tata Nano In The US?
• Using Zotero As A Code Snippet Repository
• Upgraded Lyx