544613 - redirect http://blog.mozilla.com/evangelism/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Never knew it even existed.  Or I forgot it did.  Anyway, doesn't have any posts, should close/remove and just redirect to hacks.

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Is the redirect needed?

Comment 2

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

I only ask because if there are no posts...no one ever came there?

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Just remove it.

Comment 4

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Done.

Comment 5

[Gen Kanai [:gen]]

Could we have this redirected to http://hacks.mozilla.org/ ?  That 404 is unnecessary, imo.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.mozilla.com%2Fevangelism%2F

Is there somewhere out there that actually links to it?  Google hasn't found them if so.  Is there a reason we would expect someone to guess that URL?

Comment 7

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Gen,

I'm wondering why we need this redirected if it never existed :) blog.mozilla.com is a WordpressMU install. If possible, I'd rather not go and add redirects like these that aren't supposed to be there in the first place (we don't know what other aspects of WPMU it may affect)

Comment 8

[Gen Kanai [:gen]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Is there somewhere out there that actually links to it?  Google hasn't found
> them if so.  Is there a reason we would expect someone to guess that URL?

Hm.  Maybe not.

Comment 9

[Gen Kanai [:gen]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I'm wondering why we need this redirected if it never existed :)
> blog.mozilla.com is a WordpressMU install. If possible, I'd rather not go and
> add redirects like these that aren't supposed to be there in the first place
> (we don't know what other aspects of WPMU it may affect)

Ok, if there's no sense in a redirect if there's no way anyone could have found that URL, then I'm fine with leaving it a 404.  That said, I was the one who found it initially (it was linked to from other blog.mozilla.com blogs) so there could have been traffic to that url.  I was just thinking a redirect is the cleanest thing to do but if I'm wrong or if that's not easy to do (I was thinking Apache-level, not at WPMU) then please ignore my request and lets close this bug again.

Comment 10

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

I was referring to Apache level as well and seems like I managed to do it without breaking WPMU, so this is done :)