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

[Joe Corneli]

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.
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>> 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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