So, the bad news is I can’t use a custom 404 page, because my ISP runs PHP as a cgi. (If you don’t know what that means… well, trust me, it’s for my own good.) The good news is that plain ol’ redirects work just fine, meaning I can do the RSS feed redirects I had been worried about. So I’ll migrate sometime very shortly, when I’ve collected my senses and can ask a couple of colleagues to provide emergency messages in the event Something Bad Happens.
Meanwhile, it’s Clean My Office Night, and I can’t tell you how much fun that is! So much that I’ve procrastinated for two hours. I’ll play some podcasts and get to work!
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I’m not sure what restrictions your hosting provider puts on you (and I’m afraid I don’t use PHP on a regular basis), so I’m not sure if this would work for you, but it may for some of your readers. I just migrated my blog, and I am handling the dead-link-problem using Apache’s mod_rewrite. Judging from the URL of this page, it looks like maybe you are using mod_rewrite as well (since I don’t see any ‘cgi-bin’ or .php scripts there).
In any case, if you are interested, I posted my notes at http://blog.kaeding.name/articles/2008/07/22/migrating-urls-with-apache