- From: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:33:59 +0200
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>, Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Denis, Could you go ahead with it, please? Thanks!! Cheers, Lea Lea Verou W3C developer relations http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou On Mar 21, 2013, at 22:25, Doug Schepers wrote: > 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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