- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:25:10 -0400
- To: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- CC: Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>, Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Hey- On 3/21/13 2:03 PM, Lea Verou wrote: > Implementing it should be very simple, just add two [OR] conditions in > the .htaccess so that it applies when the host is webplatform.org > <http://webplatform.org> or www.webplatform.org > <http://www.webplatform.org>. > Doug, do you think it’s a good idea? Yes, seems smart to me. Regards- -Doug > 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 >> <mailto:lea@w3.org>> wrote: >> >> What do you guys think about also redirecting URLs that are not >> found (404) from webplatform.org/svg <http://webplatform.org/svg> >> or www.webplatform.org/svg <http://www.webplatform.org/svg> to >> docs.webplatform.org/wiki/svg >> <http://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 >> <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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