How to tackle existing url's when moving from Joomla to Drupal site

I've a Joomla site but I want to move it to Drupal-6 site. How should I go about changing existing url's? Should I add the redirection in .htacces or use any redirect modules?

One main reason of moving is the forum module in Drupal which I'd like to use.

I'd be using n开发者_运维问答odealias & global redirect modules. In my site I'm using SH404SEF to generate urls(with .html suffix).

You can absolutely place a redirect in the .htaccess file and reference the pathauto generated path.

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto generates URL aliases based on title etc. and then put something like:

RewriteRule ^misc/about.html http://www.example.com/aboutus/ [R=301,L]

for each URL. (This is better off in your apache httpd.conf file for performance reasons.)

Or there is a module:

http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

Which looks like it does just what you want but I've not tried it.