496954 - Unable to redirect some pages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[David Boswell]

The About directory is configured differently than most other directories on the site and it is truncates the .html extension from some URLs.  For instance, the staff page was located at

/html/about/staff.html

but was accessed by this URL:

http://www.mozilla.org/about/staff

The page was archived but the automatic redirect is not working for the above URL.  I assume that's because there is not actually a file at

/html/about/staff/index.html

I'm also unable to redirect this URL by updating the .htaccess file with:

RewriteRule ^about/staff(?:/(?:index.html)?)?$ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/about/staff.html [R]

Am I just redirecting things incorrectly or is the configuration that's truncating the .html breaking things?

Comment 1

[David Boswell]

I ran into this problem again recently with the old CVS docs.

The file lives at:

http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/cvs.html

I can redirect the following but not the above link:

http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/cvs
http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/cvs/

This appears to be related to the server dropping the .html.

Comment 2

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Closing old Mozilla.org website bugs due to them not being relevant to the new Python-based Bedrock system. Re-open if this is a critical bug and should be resolved on the new system too.