Redirecting MovableType URLs to Wordpress in Lighty

A while ago I migrated from MT to Wordpress. This has meant lots of 404 errors as links / bookmarks to the old MT pages didn’t get redirected to their new WP equivalent. My bad. I should have sorted this out at the time I migrated. Better late than never. Here’s what I’ve done in my lighttpd config:

1. Ensure the mod_redirect module is enabled

2. Added this to the site’s config:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "example.com {

    url.redirect =
    ( "/mt/"                 => "http://example.com/blog/",
      "atom.xml"             => "http://example.com/blog/feed",
      "rss.xml"              => "http://example.com/blog/feed",
      "^/blog/.+/(.+).html"  => "http://example.com/blog/$1"
    )
}