How do I best handle a large list of redirects during a large site migration?

Greetings!

I'm migrating a content-heavy site into NationBuilder. This site has hundreds of pages of content. Each of these articles have a date path, like this:

http://domain.com/2013/07/articlename/

All of these will need redirects, since each page's respective home on the NationBuilder site will be on a new path (NationBuilder pages don't use date paths).

Normally, I'd put a list of redirects on the .htaccess file. However, I don't believe that is possible on NationBuilder.

Although it is possible to create pages-of-type-redirect on a Nation, I do not believe it is possible to make a redirect page that would match the example url above. Even if it were, it would be impractical to make hundreds of them.

Is there a process for handling a boatload of redirects for large-site migrations in a more efficient manner?

Official response from NationBuilder Support

It sounds like you're looking for our Legacy URL Importer. It will pull all of your site's URLs into new NationBuilder pages, and give you a list where you can set redirects if you want important legacy URLs (such as contact forms) to map to new NationBuilder pages.

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Ian Hines

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posted 2016-06-08 10:58:48 -0700
Tim Wayne

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Tim Wayne commented
Thanks, Lilia. I haven’t used the site migrator tool yet. This will be a new experience.
posted 2013-09-17 12:07:29 -0700
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Josh Stuart commented
Second that statement from Ian! Lilia = Awesome
posted 2013-09-17 10:56:21 -0700
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Ian Hines commented
Hey Lilia — I didn’t even see your comment and just wrote the same answer above. You’re awesome.
posted 2013-09-17 10:53:34 -0700
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posted 2013-09-17 10:52:13 -0700
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Hey Tim, you can migrate and redirect old site urls using NationBuilder’s Legacy URL Importer. Here is a blog post about it: http://nationbuilder.com/siteimporter — You can choose to redirect to specific pages or not. The tool makes sure you don’t miss any links that may have been potentially spidered.
posted 2013-09-16 22:56:19 -0700