284226 - Mozilla 1.8b1's about: link is 404.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[u12624]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

The "Mozilla 1.8b" link in the about page points to the wrong URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Mozilla 1.8b1 click "Help".
2. Click "About Mozilla".
2. Click on the big "Mozilla 1.8b" link.

Actual Results:  
Get "404: File Not Found
/releases/mozilla1.8b
We are sorry, the file you requested could not be found." 
when accessing <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b>.

Expected Results:  
Should have shown <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b1/>.

Please create <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b> and auto redirect it
to <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b1/>.

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

justdave, would the following work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mozilla1.8b$ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b1/ [R=302,L]

I'm afraid you you get a circle with that rule. In fact, I'm pretty sure...

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Yeah, that'll work, and no, you wouldn't get a loop because of the $ on the end.
 If there's anything after the b the rule won't match.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

Cool, checked in.

Reporter, could you check in about 30 minutes if the (temporary, 302) redirect
works?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This doesn't look like it worked.  I think you should just use a redirect.

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

I fixed it again:
<http://cvs-www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/html/releases/.htaccess>

Comment 6

[u12624]

<http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b/> is redirected but that's not the
link on the "about:" page.

<http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b> still gives the user a 404.

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

I was told <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b/> was in the about page.

Comment 8

[Anne (:annevk)]

Ugh, you are right. It should become:

RedirectMatch permanent ^mozilla1.8b/?$
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8b1/

I guess. Waiting for justdave to verify that.

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

If you redirect the thing without the slash it should be fine.

Comment 10

[Anne (:annevk)]

Done that. Works. Fixed.