I received a gift from the techno-gods. It’s a gift I had hoped for, asked for, but never expected to actually happen.
I recently talked about the recent server migration my host made me go through. I’d been putting the migration off for well over a year, waiting for them to work out some bugs. I was also procrastinating because the move, as described to me, would require me to change a URL on almost 2000 static html pages.
Basically, my order form used to live (pre-migration) at the URL “https://st05.startlogic…”. When my web host said the server st05 was going to have it’s plug pulled, I was forced to undergo the migration or risk the loss of my website.
The other night I figured I might as well start working on replacing the Order Form URL to point to the the new server. To my astonishment, every single html page had the Order Form URL already changed. Apparently, some tech-guru somewhere had the forethought to write in a search and replace code. Throughout my web domain, wherever I had a URL that pointed to “st05” server, the host computer re-wrote all of my html pages to replace that with the new server address.
Hallelujah! Saved from many hours of very tedious work. Thank you, tech-gods.
Now I’ve got more time to tend to my other very tedious work.
