[p2pu-dev] dns change, keeping links sane

[John Britton]

I really like the 404 page solution, although we should also add in
redirects for any important pages that have changed. Courses that were not
imported can be handled by the 404 page with a link.

Pages like /webcraft should not change url
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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