Closed Bug 275579 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Pages simply disappeared (wrong status code)

Categories

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Product:
mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Server Operations
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: 3.14, Assigned: justdave)

References

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Details

As observed in bug 251502 and bug 219171, some pages simply disappeared. This leaves the web server and the users wondering what happened. It is never correct to return 404 for a page that once existed. There are two ways: 410 for pages which are gone forever and 301 for relocated pages. I miss two pages: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/queryhelp.cgi Both should show 301 to an appropriate page. pi
Anne: what's the magic for the .htaccess file to generate a 410 error?
Assignee: mozilla.webmaster → justdave
Component: webmaster@mozilla.org → Server Operations
QA Contact: danielwang → myk
bug_status moved, I'll put in a 301 for it. queryhelp is gone, the important stuff from it is now embedded in query.cgi if you click the help link. On second though, I threw in a 301 for that, too... query.cgi with help tooltips :)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
If you really want to 410 something in the future, 'redirect gone /path/to/file'.
That was quick. pi
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: mozilla.org → mozilla.org Graveyard
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