- From: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:03:44 +0200
- To: Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <D40045A1-327F-4CE7-BF42-DD9A7B056268@w3.org>
Implementing it should be very simple, just add two [OR] conditions in the .htaccess so that it applies when the host is webplatform.org or www.webplatform.org. Doug, do you think it’s a good idea? Lea Verou W3C developer relations http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou On Mar 21, 2013, at 19:53, Ryan Lane wrote: > Likely a good idea. We do something like this with Wikimedia sites as well; for instance: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page > > We should probably add nice pages for 404s and other errors as well. > > - Ryan > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote: > What do you guys think about also redirecting URLs that are not found (404) from webplatform.org/svg or www.webplatform.org/svg to docs.webplatform.org/wiki/svg? I often make the mistake of leaving out the "docs" subdomain and get an ugly 404. > > Lea Verou > W3C developer relations > http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou > > > > > > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 17:01, Doug Schepers wrote: > > > Hey, folks- > > > > On 3/20/13 9:02 AM, Denis Ah-Kang wrote: > >> On 03/19/2013 12:51 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Lea Verouwrote: > >>> > >>> I’m not sure if I’m in the minority, but I often type WPD URLs by > >>> hand, so typing the /wiki part every time is tedious. I was > >>> wondering if we could set up redirects for the top level paths (e.g. > >>> /css, /html, /svg etc) which redirect to the URL with the /wiki part > >>> so that for example [1] becomes [2]. > >>> > >>> Doug likes the idea but is concerned about potential SEO > >>> implications. I think that if we do it with 301 redirects it will be > >>> fine for SEO, but I might be wrong (?). > >>> Denis, is it possible? I think it could be done with a few rules in > >>> the .htaccess, perhaps without even having to explicitly list all > >>> the top level categories (i.e. test if the path starts with /wiki > >>> and if not, add it). > >>> Everyone else, do you think it's a good idea? > >>> > >>> This shouldn't hurt SEO. Assuming this structure won't change much in > >>> the future, it seems sane. Changes in the structure could harm SEO if > >>> we're unable to properly map the redirects to the new structure (dead > >>> links are bad). The rewrite rules for this should be easy-ish. > >> > >> I added the redirects directly in the docs apache configuration. Let me > >> know if there's any issue. > > > > Thanks, Denis, seems to work fine! > > > > (To clarify, I didn't have concerns per se about SEO, I just wanted to get community opinion and buy-in, in case we were missing something.) > > > > Regards- > > -Doug > > > >
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