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Here's a bcc of a reply I sent to the migration team.
	-Joe

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:21:34PM -0600, Verio Web Migrations wrote:
> Re: inwap.com
> 
> 1. Using a browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer), go to:
> http://inwap.best.vwh.net/

It looks good.  Thanks for converting the #counter directives.

> This is a mirrored copy of your site on the new server. Please
> inspect this new site to verify everything is working correctly.

It did not work at all when I first looked at it.  That's because
these two lines in .bhtaccess

	# Make "www.best.com/~inwap" go to the custom domain
	UserRedirect / http://www.inwap.com/

got translated to three lines in .htaccess:

	# WAS: UserRedirect / http://www.inwap.com/
	# WAS: Redirect / http://www.inwap.com/
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.inwap.com/$1 [R]

The UserRedirect directive should be completely ignored during the
conversion, not translated twice into an unconditional rewrite.
The new site started working when I deleted that last line.

> If we don't hear from you before Tuesday, October 23 
> we will assume all is well and begin the process of updating 
> the DNS records for your domain. Once that is complete, your 
> domain name will begin resolving to your new web site, and 
> mail will be delivered to your new web hosting account. 

Go ahead; I'm ready.

> 2. During the migraiton period make changes to both your Best site 
> and the copy of your site. Otherwise when your DNS is updated your 
> site may not be current.
> 
> 3. Please do not upload an old copy of your site into the new Verio 
> site. Instead, first download a copy and then proceed to make updates. 
> (FrontPage users can skip this step) If you do upload an old version 
> you may break portions of your site that have been migrated over.

I noticed that every single one of my *.cgi or *.pl programs got
renamed to file-before-migration.  The first line of files that had
"#!/usr/local/bin/perl" got changed to "#!/usr/local/bin/perl4", which
is good.  I should have identified which scripts were perl4-specific
myself.  But files that started with "#!/usr/local/bin/perl5" got
changed to "#!/usr/local/bin/perl4".  That's bad.  All my perl5 scripts
stopped working.

I had to undo the damage by executing "mv script-before-migration script"
for all the ones that had correctly being using perl5 before.

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