[p2pu-dev] dns change, keeping links sane

[Philipp Schmidt]

On 6 June 2011 09:44, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
> We would have to manually map all the old course URLs to the new course
> URLs. We should also have a look at our stats to see if there are any
> specific pages, below the course start page, which receives a lot of direct
> hits, and create special redirects for them. I think trying to cover every
> single detail page would be very difficult.

what about a wildcard redirect? is something like this possible?

www.p2pu.org/old-URL

if old-URL doesn't exist on the current p2pu.org (the new site), then
replace www. with old. and forward to the original page on the old
site

we place a prominent overlay on old pages, which tell users that there
is a new site, and that they can easily import this course into the
new site if they want (good suggestion jessy!)

this wouldn't require manual mapping.

- P

> Stian
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:43, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Question: when we switch the DNS record for p2pu.org to point to our new
>> site, is there a way to gracefully redirect *all* existing URL's on the
>> current site? a significant share of our traffic goes to specific URLs on
>> the current site, including from google, and i would hate to just redirect
>> them all to an error page.
>> what's the best way of handling this?
>> - P
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