Closed Bug 1110927 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

301 redirect legacy pages that are 404ing

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(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Production
defect
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: cmore, Assigned: kohei)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [kb=1611588] [fxgrowth][SEO])

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We are getting 404s to these legacy URL patterns:

/fr/firefox/start/central.html
/de/firefox/start/central.html
/*/firefox/start/central.html

redirect: /firefox/

/en-US/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/

redirect: /en-US/firefox/whatsnew/

/*/firefox/panorama/

redirect: /firefox/desktop/

/en-US/firefox/sync/firstrun.html
/*/firefox/sync/firstrun.html

redirect: /firefox/sync/
Whiteboard: [fxgrowth][SEO]
Attached file pull request
SUMO has an article about Panorama so we could use this:

/firefox/panorama/ -> https://support.mozilla.org/kb/tab-groups-organize-tabs
Assignee: nobody → kohei.yoshino
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Whiteboard: [fxgrowth][SEO] → [kb=1611588] [fxgrowth][SEO]
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/60e5b46de8e55ee9d76568f0c74fe8b54220c893
Fix Bug 1110927 - 301 redirect legacy pages that are 404ing

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/4153457dc442d3c069382b1341a9914a6d57a184
Merge pull request #2597 from kyoshino/bug-1110927-legacy-404

Fix Bug 1110927 - 301 redirect legacy pages that are 404ing
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
:cmore - Do you have any further insight to the /en-US/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ URL? We're wondering if this goofy pattern is an internal bug or just a bad link from outside.

Can you tell how much traffic this URL is receiving?
Flags: needinfo?(chrismore.bugzilla)
(In reply to Jon Petto [:jpetto] from comment #3)
> :cmore - Do you have any further insight to the
> /en-US/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ URL? We're wondering if this goofy
> pattern is an internal bug or just a bad link from outside.
> 
> Can you tell how much traffic this URL is receiving?

If I graph /.+/firefox/.+/firefox/whatsnew/ (all locales) over all of 2014. There was zero traffic until immediately on June 18th. Roughly about 5,000+ per week and pretty steady up until now.

Top variations:

/en-US/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/
/fr/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/
/es-ES/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/
/en-US/firefox/fr/firefox/whatsnew/

From looking at the data, the first locale in that URL pattern appears to be the correct one. For example, 100% of /fr/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ is coming from a fr browser and 100% of /es-ES/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ comes from an es-ES browser.

So...

/en-US/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ > /en-US/firefox/whatsnew/

/fr/firefox/en-US/firefox/whatsnew/ > /fr/firefox/whatsnew/

and so on....

it is interesting that none of these URLs contain version numbers.

It looks like this is mainly Firefox 1.x, 2.x and the latest Firefox version.
Flags: needinfo?(chrismore.bugzilla)
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