I mean... what more could a parent hope for?

Getting woken up by their kid in the morning, given them a (face) hug(ger). 😄

You've raised 'em right. ❤️😄

Yes I&nbspdo. 😄

Put me down for 2. 😄🧌

Yup, promising but ultimately not it.

The system basically makes best guess matches between file A (origin URLs) and file B (destinations) based on the URL.

Useful in certain circs I'm sure but not it for this project sadly.

Thanks for sharing it though!

Well now... this looks interesting. Thanks Chris.

Who knew LinkedIn could be useful...? 😄

I'm open to all solutions. 😊

I'm just very wary of the 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' issue, as I'm not sure how (or even if?) I could give any system an overview of all the moving parts (platforms, regex variations, order or redirect rules etc.) it'd need to do this well.

Just shared a copy of the Sheet I'm working on with you.

Zero pressure/expectation - but just that probably explains better what I'm scratching my brain over. 😄

Yup. There's a good example in this one. They had

/staff/[staff-name]/

and then moved it to:

/our-team/[staff-name]/

Splats are perfect for that.

But they also have staff that have now left that need to 301 to the parent page.

I don't think a tool/system can logic that?

As I said to @simoncox.com it feels too complex/dependent.

You point about different rules on different platforms is a good one. The *order* in which the rules appear is critical info too.

Also feels risky: one misplaced redirect rule could bork the whole site.

I know you know but for clarity of "I'm not a d*ck, honest" - the 'by this afternoon' part was a joke.

I'm just chugging through this manually and thinking: "There *must* be better way..." and coming up empty.

Any and all ideas welcome.

/1

Thank you Prof. Smart.

I would like to input:

x lines of redirect rules (including regex, wildcards etc.)

and I would like the tool to output:

y lines of redirect rules (including regex, wildcards etc.)

Whereby y < x.

Please and thank you. Have it on my desk by this afternoon. 😂

From Fifa?

I think most things from Fifa are motivated by money or power (ideally both).

PR? Maybe. If it helps them get more money/power.

I feel like I want to invoke the smart builder folks (like @tamethebots.com, @not-a-robot.com, @defaced.dev et al).

If I say their names 3 times, backwards, into a mirror maybe they'll build a tool for that? 😂

Thanks Chris. If nothing else this is reassurance that I'm not just wasting my time doing it that way. 😄

I am wondering how 'worth it' it is?

Is /(andrew|chris|montse|heather)/ = /seo/

much better than separate lines for each?

Scaled to 3k redirects... maybe?

At the moment I'm wrestling with them in a Google Sheet. 😄

This site is currently using a WordPress plugin to built them -- but yes, regex and wildcards and the whole kaboodle.