569560 - Add redirect for s.m.c/contribute

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

We are working on a paper flyer to distribute at the LinuxTag event (Wednesday June 9th) and need a redirect for support.mozilla.com/contribute to point to support.mozilla.com/%locale%/kb/How+to+contribute.

Don't quote me on this, but in an attempt to make this easy for webdev, I think what needs to be added near the end of http://svn.mozilla.org/projects/sumo/trunk/webroot/htaccess.dist is:

RewriteRule ^([\-a-zA-Z]+)/contribute$                  /$1/contribute/ [R]
...
RewriteRule ^contribute\/?$               tiki-index.php?page=How+to+contribute   [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([\-a-zA-Z]+)/contribute\/?$               tiki-index.php?page=How+to+contribute&locale=$1   [QSA,L]

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Close, but not quite. I'll pick this up today.

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Can this redirect? IE: Can the URL change once people navigate to /contribute, or does it need to stay unchanged?

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Yes, it can definitely redirect. It should work the same way as the /forum redirect, which expands to https://support.mozilla.com/%detected_locale%/kb/Support+Website+Forums. Thanks!

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Attachment: really simple

This leaves the locale-detection to Tiki and just maps /contribute to /kb/How+to+contribute. Simple.

Comment 5

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Comment on attachment 449039 [details] [diff] [review]
really simple

WFM.

Comment 6

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

r68277.

QA/David: This just makes /contribute redirect to /kb/How+to+contribute, and Tiki figures out the language from your browser. Sound right?

Comment 7

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Sounds perfect. 

Btw, when I looked at htaccess.dist, I saw at least three lines of code per similar redirect (/forum, /chat) -- that's why I proposed that code in comment 0. Just flagging it in case we're missing something, though I bet you know what you're doing. ;)

Comment 8

[David Tenser [:djst]]

And indeed, this things works on stage.

Comment 9

[David Tenser [:djst]]

(And my grammer is badder than normal)

Comment 10

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

Verified FIXED; tested |en-US| and |de| in my accept-language prefs.

Comment 11

[Vishal Kamdar [:vish_moz]]

I also tested it on Fx 3.6.3 Gujrati (gu-IN) browser.
https://support-stage-new.mozilla.com/contribute
   redirects to
https://support-stage-new.mozilla.com/gu-IN/kb/How+to+contribute

Comment 12

[Tanay Gavankar [:tgavankar]]

in-testsuite+: bug 570245