[p2pu-dev] dns change, keeping links sane

[zuzel.vp]

Today we were talking also about:

* Static redirects for important pages like school pages so if they
access http://p2pu.org/webcraft they go to the p2pu.org webcraft
school page on the new site (please list any any important pages you
know of. i will try to check google analytics for data about this). --
using http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/redirects/
* Dynamic redirects to the same url but in archive.p2pu.org if the
page exists on the old site.

-- 
Thanks,
    Zuzel


On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Jessica Ledbetter
<jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
> Can probably with .htaccess or urls.py
> Maybe toss a little 301 in there for search engine notifications?
> We can also update the 404 with a list of popular destinations based on what
> Stian said.
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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