Moving entire site to subdir, preserving old links (?)

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old link is www.mysite.com/index.html the new one after moving will be www.mysite.com/newroot/index.html. But I need that new link in new site for external world was remain in old form - www.mysite.com/index.html

Try using in your mysite.com folder following .htaccess content:

Code:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\.html$ newwroot/index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

also to make use of built-in GS menu (to be able to add pages to menu an then use get_navigation() in template) in custom permalinks settings set:

Code:

%slug%.html

Please keep in mind I am not an expert and can't test the above or guarantee it works.