#144 Issue closed: Old website should redirect (even for deep links)¶
Labels: cleanup
dagwieers opened issue at 2012-08-12 22:23:¶
As mentioned on #24, the old website only redirects the main page (e.g. http://rear.sf.net/) to the new location (http://relax-and-recover.org/) but not for sub-pages (e.g. http://rear.sf.net/documentation.php). Because of this old users (through old links) or new users (through Google) end up on our old documentation and web-pages.
@gdha How can we fix this the best way ?
gdha commented at 2012-08-13 06:21:¶
I guess the best thing we could do at SF are deleting all pages except
the
main one. That would fix that problem, right?
schlomo commented at 2012-08-13 08:38:¶
Hi,
On 13 August 2012 08:21, Gratien D'haese notifications@github.com wrote:
I guess the best thing we could do at SF are deleting all pages except the
main one. That would fix that problem, right?
But only if we can put an error page. Otherwise I would suggest
replacing
all existing pages with the same one that has a Location 301 http-equiv
to
tell also search engines about the permanently moved page.
Regards,
Schlomo
dagwieers commented at 2012-08-21 22:06:¶
I prefer indeed having 301 (permanent redirects) to similar content on the new website.
gdha commented at 2012-08-23 09:40:¶
Just made the redirect pages on sourceforge.net - it seems to work. Wait for a day or two to be really sure everything is fine (and no complaints arrive).
dagwieers commented at 2012-08-23 13:55:¶
@gdha Great work. I quickly verified some common links and it works well. I hope Google properly handles http-equiv refreshes, and it seems they do: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-and-yahoo-treat-undelayed-meta-refresh-as-301-redirect/
[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]