1334196 - Google links to bugXXXX.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=YYYY

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Infrastructure, defect)

Description

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

I was googling for something today and there were a couple of bugzilla pages in the search results results. Clicking on one, I noticed that I was no longer logged in to bmo. That turned out to be because the host that Google linked to was <https://bug623317.bugzilla.mozilla.org>. Confusingly, the actual bug linked to was bug 679939, so the full result was <https://bug623317.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679939>.

The search I used was <https://www.google.com/search?q=COMPILE_N_GO&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8> and for posterity, the first two results that I get are:

679939 – remove COMPILE_N_GO - Bug 623317 - Mozilla
https://bug623317.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679939
...
288473 – (js-ccache) Cache compiled javascripts - Bug 623317 - Mozilla
https://bug623317.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288473

It would be nice if either these links redirected back to bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug... or if we somehow told Google to not spider the bugXXXX subdomains.

Comment 1

[Kendall Libby [:fubar] (he/him)]

The apache config currently does

        # Let the bug subdomains redirect to the bug instead of to the home page
        RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^bug(\d+)\.
        RewriteRule ^/$ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%1 [R=302,L]

so https://bugXXX.bugzilla.mozilla.org/ redirects correctly but not anything else. Dylan, any concerns with opening up that '^/$' to something more broad (maybe just drop the '$') ?

Comment 2

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

I don't see any harm in that.

Comment 3

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Did we need to make changes to the Apache Config or can I close this?

Comment 4

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

I assume the change still needs to be made, and that config still lives in Puppet.
I'll ask someone with commit access that to make the change (like fubar)

Comment 6

[Mark Straver]

As noted in the now-duped bug, Google search results also lead to api-dev.bugzilla.* and if searching while logged in, both the bugxxxx.bugzilla and api-dev.bugzilla results are (1) very slow to load an (2) do not retain the logged-in state and customizations of the logged in account -- one has to manually remove the api-dev or bugxxxxx prefix to get back to a fast and logged-in condition.

Comment 7

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Since we now have canonical URLs, these bogus links should have been gone.