395254 - links to download page broken for non- en-US users..

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[chris hofmann]

recently reported to webmaster:


when I go to http://gaeilge.mozdev.org/index.html and click on the link for "December 2006: Firefox 2 is released and available in Irish. Download it today!" on the right hand side using the en-US build I get all.html and can find  the Irish version.   Looks like the problem is that we sniff out the en-GB version and do redirection to content that can't be found...

one fix is to have the mozdev and any other external website point directly to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all instead of http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html

and the other fix is to put in some redirects.   is this something that changed recently?   if it is I bet we could be breaking other non en-US related sites that point people at our old download page...

here is the report:


THis link isnt working, its supposed to download Firefox in Irish, but doesnt.

http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/all

http://gaeilge.mozdev.org/index.html <---  I clicked the appropriate button on this page. But got a
We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for. 

ect etc page.

:( If firefox in irish unavailable now?

Thanks for your time

Rose Farrell

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Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

I think the redirect on mozilla.org is wrong, it should redirect to http://{locale}.www.mozilla.com/{locale}/firefox/all.html the html file extension is missing in the redirect

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

This problem doesn't occur for en-US builds, so I was trying to figure out what was the problem, and I couldn't find anything wrong. I finally downloaded an en-GB build and used it, and I see the problem.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in .htaccess;
/www/mozilla-org/html/products/firefox/.htaccess,v  <--  .htaccess
new revision: 1.22; previous revision: 1.21
done

Ok, this should be fixed. Thanks for the report!