437662 - Mozilla.com redirects for the Firefox Features & Firefox Tips page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Tara (musingt)]

We'd like to create redirected links for the Firefox Features and Firefox Tips page.  

URLs now:
https://www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
https://www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/

URLs when the site launches:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/

They should redirect from FirefoxFeatures and FirefoxTips.  Lets also do firefoxfeatures and firefoxtips to be on the safe side.

Challenges/Questions:
1.) Can we set up these redirects so that they point to the users' correct locale as oppose to just en-US?

2.) Can we make sure these redirects are ready as soon as the website launches, even though these pages technically don't exist yet?

Thanks for your help.

~T

Comment 1

[John Slater]

a=jslater on this

Also, just to be clear, the redirects we want are:
1. http://www.mozilla.com/firefoxfeatures and http://www.mozilla.com/FirefoxFeatures both point to http://www.mozilla.com/%locale%/firefox/features/

2. http://www.mozilla.com/firefoxtips and http://www.mozilla.com/FirefoxTips both point to http://www.mozilla.com/%locale%/firefox/tips/

These redirects will be used in some press materials, so they need to be in place at launch.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Wil, should this be an apache redirect?  Don't you need to detect the language in the application?

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

We should do this in the .htaccess to /firefox/features and then they'll get another redirect that will tack on the locale.  Not an IT bug - feel free to remove infra flag and reassign to me.

Comment 4

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Not an IT bug - feel free to remove infra flag and reassign to me.
Jeremy, can you do this? I don't have access to remove that flag.

Thanks all-

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

r15199

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Is it fine that the links go to /en-US/firefoxfeatures and /en-US/Firefoxfeatures, and /en-US/firefoxtips/ and /en-US/FirefoxTips/, instead of /en-US/firefox/features and /en-US/firefox/tips, respectively?

(The content is the same, and this seems to be the same thing we did to make the /whatsnew/ page pull content from the /firstrun/ page -- just making sure.)

Comment 7

[John Slater]

As long as the end result is the same - getting people to the Features and Tips pages from those shortened links - then this is totally fine. Thanks for checking.

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Cool; verified fixed.