650460 - Redirect irc.mozilla.org to http://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

David Boswell and I have copied over all content from http://irc.mozilla.org web page to http://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC wiki page, and would like to use that one as our primary IRC info page. 

Users will be able to add their own channels without bugging IT or WebDev.

David Boswell can vouch if needed.

Comment 1

[David Boswell]

Yes, I can vouch for this plan to take down the http://irc.mozilla.org site and redirect to the wiki page. 

The http://irc.mozilla.org page doesn't need to exist as a standalone website and the wiki page should be fine for this content.  Plus the current site is very difficult to maintain since it is still in CVS and very few people know where the code is or how to edit it.

Comment 2

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Adding to the list of sites in process of retirement at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Taskforce/Proposals/Abandoned_Sites/2011

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Is there a way to lock portions of the page?  I'd rather the connection notice stuff not get touched by random folks for example :)

Comment 4

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Done.

fox2mike@woodpecker ~ $ curl -I -L http://irc.mozilla.org/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:24:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Comment 5

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is there a way to lock portions of the page?  I'd rather the connection notice
> stuff not get touched by random folks for example :)

Don't think we can do portions of the page, but I don't see why we can't protect the page such that only admins can edit it. That'll stop people from changing important information on it.

Comment 6

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Alternatively, I'm watching this page now. If we do see unauthorized edits or misleading info, we can think about locking the page down, I guess.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We lost this redirect somehow.  I get what's left of the old HTML with no CSS when I hit this URL now instead of getting redirected to the wiki.

Comment 8

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

It broke when we moved irc.mozilla.org to 3crowd. Fixed now (added the same redirect to concrete).