1053744 - blog.mozilla.com/* are redirected to blog.mozilla.org, resulting in broken feed URLs and content

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: IT-Managed Tools, task)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

According to my feed reader logs it started between 12 AM and 1 PM CET time.

All blog.mozilla.com URLs are redirecting to blog.mozilla.org/, resulting in broken feed URLs, and most important in broken posts across websites.

Example: l10n blog
http://blog.mozilla.com/l10n/

Get redirected to
http://blog.mozilla.org/

And posts are missing images. Example
https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2014/08/05/awesome-l10n-contributor-biraj-karmakar/

Comment 1

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

The redirect issue has been resolved. It was a match issue for the target, it was not including the original request after the /.

I will look into the image issue.

Comment 2

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Wow, so I finally got this one figured out. It was a bit time consuming because everything was working correctly in the dev environment (which is why we went to prod with yesterdays changes).

It turned out that sometime in the distant past someone was testing a caching plugin (in prod) and left an errant .htaccess file lying around (deep in the filesystem). This caused things under two particular upload paths to redirect incorrectly and serve the internal 404 instead of the actual file.

I have removed that .htaccess file and removed the test plugin as well. I also spoke with the person and asked them to dev in dev next time, so this issue should not reoccur.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and please let me know if you see anything else that is not right.

Regards