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

[Jessy Kate]

We can use URL shorteners for that... :)

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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.
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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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