[p2pu-dev] dns change, keeping links sane

[Stian Håklev]

I don't think a wildcard redirect would work, since the URL Structure in the
old site and the new site will be quite different.

Stian

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 01:25, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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>> 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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