644248 - firefox/4.0/features on about:home systematically sends users to the English page while we have localized version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

1/ about:home
2/ one of the rotating snippets points to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0/features
3/ click the link with a localized version we have pages for (ex: es-AR)

actual result:
You land on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features

expected result:
you land on http://www.mozilla.com/es-AR/firefox/features


This is because we have 2 htaccess rules:
.htaccess:165: RewriteRule ^(\w{2,3}(?:-\w{2}(?:-mac)?)?/)?firefox/4.0/features[/]? /firefox/beta/features/ [R=302]

.htaccess:394: RewriteRule ^en-US/firefox/beta/features(/(index.html)?)?$ /en-US/firefox/features/ [R=301]

The first one leads to /es-AR/firefox/beta/features which doesn't exists and falls back to en-US/firefox/beta/features

The second rule leads to the final feature page but the locale code was lost in the process.

the second rule should be removed and the first one should be:

RewriteRule ^(\w{2,3}(?:-\w{2}(?:-mac)?)?/)?firefox/4\.0/features[/]?$ $1firefox/features/ [R=302]

Comment 1

[John Slater]

James/Anthony/Laura - thoughts?

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

This has been impacting locales on 4.0 for 2 months, I am going to fix it myself before 5.0 is released, especially since we now have close to 30 locales with a features page on mozilla.com.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

fixed on trunk on r90786
http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0/features/

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

r90789 makes the redirect permanent

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

r90790 on stage
http://www.stage.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0/features/
redirects (with to
http://www.stage.mozilla.com/fr/firefox/features/

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

r90790 on stage
http://www.stage.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0/features/
redirects (with fr accept-lang hearders) to:
http://www.stage.mozilla.com/fr/firefox/features/

Comment 7

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

r90791 on production
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0/features/
redirects (with fr accept-lang hearders) to:
http://www.mozilla.com/fr/firefox/features/