[p2pu-dev] dns change, keeping links sane

[Jessica Ledbetter]

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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