New Message: Redirects with sub paths not working

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$1464

By: Ben Collis (ben at dp.co.nz)

I have recently used the site structure redirects when setting up sites that have been crossed over onto a Manila site from elsewhere ..

namely XML like ..

<redirect pathname="index.php" url="http://www.crossedoversitedomain.com/" />

great for sites that were ASP, PHP and so on.

However if they had something like

/pointlesspath/anotherone/somepage.htm

 .... which I want to direct to just

www.crossedoversitedomain.com/somepage.htm

then

<redirect pathname="/pointlesspath/anotherone/somepage.htm" url="http://www.crossedoversitedomain.com/somepage.htm" />

.. is not working for me. I presume because the manila expects the site structure to have some category for this to function and therefore causes a 404. Is there a way to achieve this ?

This is a Manila site... http://manila.userland.com/.