If there is time, please use mod_rewrite[1] to redirect user to the new pages or at least to the new site. Sending an HTTP response (301) 'Moved Permanently' might also help the search engines update, because the old pages are still turning up in Google. This one turned up just now near the top of the search results but gives a 404 Not Found error: http://softwarefreedomday.org/about The redirects can point to individual pages if there is a 1:1 mapping or just to a page on the new site saying that there is a new address and to rummage around there. Regards /Lars [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2
Am 21.07.2010 12:00, schrieb Lars Nooden:
If there is time, please use mod_rewrite[1] to redirect user to the new pages or at least to the new site. Sending an HTTP response (301) 'Moved Permanently' might also help the search engines update, because the old pages are still turning up in Google.
I agree with you in the sense, that we should definitely have some 404 capturing. Redirecting is a bit complicated, because we spread our pages. But a page that does a little search and provides a link to the wiki would be good. We did not come to an agreement yet on how we do it. Regards, Thilo -- XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig SFD 2010 http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Hey! Thanks for the advice, we'll try to do something about. The plan is to put it back online soon but it's a huge file and we have to move it to a different server, plus upgrade it. Anyway a redirect will do us good. Fred On 07/21/2010 06:00 PM, Lars Nooden wrote:
If there is time, please use mod_rewrite[1] to redirect user to the new pages or at least to the new site. Sending an HTTP response (301) 'Moved Permanently' might also help the search engines update, because the old pages are still turning up in Google.
This one turned up just now near the top of the search results but gives a 404 Not Found error: http://softwarefreedomday.org/about
The redirects can point to individual pages if there is a 1:1 mapping or just to a page on the new site saying that there is a new address and to rummage around there.
Regards /Lars
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2
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On 07/21/2010 01:19 PM, Frederic Muller - SFI wrote:
Hey!
Thanks for the advice, we'll try to do something about. The plan is to put it back online soon but it's a huge file and we have to move it to a different server, plus upgrade it.
Anyway a redirect will do us good.
Thanks, Thilo and Frederic, How about for the interim period making a single catch-all page on the Wiki and redirect all the 404's there? Then later proper redirect formulas can be set up to steer known moved pages to their new address. The catch-all page could say something to the effect that the page you were looking for has moved to the wiki and provide the visitor a search box and links to the top of the wiki with advice to search or browse there? That keeps the dead links from being complete dead ends. If the wiki (it's moinmoin, right?) has a plug-in to create a site map for google[1], that can help. Regards /Lars [1] http://moinmo.in/ActionMarket/SiteMap (Google supports FOSS in word and deed, the other two on the list probably won't give a worthy return on investment to warrant the effort.) http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183668
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