1324404 - Redirect /search to Lithium's search page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Lithium Migration, task)

Description

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Redirect 

 - /search
 - /search/
 - /search/advanced/
 - /search/advanced

to Lithium's search page while respecting user's Accept-Language header, e.g. a user with German as preferred language should get redirected to the German search page.

Comment 1

[Tyson Nunemacher]

Are there already links to /search somewhere which need a 301 redirect?  I guess I don't understand the use case.

The language of the text keys on the search page will be governed by a user's profile language.  

The language of content returned by a search can be filtered with a category filter.

Comment 2

[Tyson Nunemacher]

Also, if you do a search from within a language-specific category, which are our top-level categories containing all sub-categories, boards and article content for a language, you'll be searching for articles in that language as a matter of course.

Comment 3

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

(In reply to Tyson Nunemacher from comment #1)
> Are there already links to /search somewhere which need a 301 redirect?  I
> guess I don't understand the use case.

This is a very simple redirect request of /search to Lithium's search page. There are links everywhere pointing to /search.
 
Since search -as with all pages- are hit by non-logged in users mostly Accept-Language is a method to identify the language of the user and provide relevant content without extra user action, e.g. selecting language for UI and/or filtering by category.

Comment 4

[Alice Wyman]

In case it helps, the migrated "Using Advanced Search" article currently at  http://migration26.stage.lithium.com/t5/Documents-Archive/Using-Advanced-Search/ta-p/1286464
includes this link:
http://migration26.stage.lithium.com/search/advanced
... which takes you to:
http://migration26.stage.lithium.com/t5/forums/searchpage

The link in the related SUMO article at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-advanced-search
goes to https://support.mozilla.org/search/advanced

Comment 5

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

The redirect is working. The UI language is chosen as everywhere is Lithium. Marking this fixed.