[p2pu-dev] rewrite url for courses whose name has changed

[Joe Corneli]

mind the gap between
the group of one lonely guy
and his user page


At Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:13:18 -0400,
"zuzel.vp" <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "courses/groups" in the url are used to decide who serves those pages.
> They need to be there for example to differentiate between user
> profiles and study groups/courses pages  (e.g., math school, math
> course, math username).
> 
> I will add it to lighthouse.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
>     Zuzel
> P.S. nice post http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "group" is generic
> > it adds no information --
> > unnecessary
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jessy Kate <jessy.cowansharp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We can use URL shorteners for that... :)
> >>
> >> -- Sent from my phone
> >>
> >> On Mar 30, 2011 4:42 AM, "Joe Corneli" <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 5 chars of filler?
> >>> Not good for tweeting about.
> >>> Zap the field instead
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Could we remove "course" from the URL and use "group" instead. It is
> >>>> more ambiguous and let's us go into different directions in the
> >>>> future. Course has a very specific meaning.
> >>>>
> >>>> P
> >>>>
> >>>> On 29 March 2011 12:17, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
> >>>>> I agree with stian on this one, urls should be based on an ID with the
> >>>>> course name stringified after
> >>>>> http://example.com/course/1234/{WILDCARD FOR SEO}
> >>>>> If the course name changes, the wildcard will change but all links (old
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> new) will always work thanks to the ID. Scribd and a bunch of other
> >>>>> sites do
> >>>>> it this way.
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> contact info:
> >>>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
> >>>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Right now after the course is created the url does not change. --
> >>>>>> Added a ticket for this:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/42-rewrite-url-for-courses-whose-name-has-changed
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>    Zuzel
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> > I think the new way (committed to source, but not to the running
> >>>>>> > version
> >>>>>> > yet) is a URL with a unique ID and a long name, lke
> >>>>>> > new.p2pu.org/en-US/34034/mathematics-on-computers. That way we can
> >>>>>> > change
> >>>>>> > the name easily, without breaking URLs, and we won't have a problem
> >>>>>> > with
> >>>>>> > name collisions when we run courses again and again, etc.
> >>>>>> > Stian
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:00, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/joes-life/
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> should presumably be
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/mathematics-on-computers/
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