670118 - [One Mozilla] Redirect mozilla.com to mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[James Long (:jlongster)]

We need to add a redirect at the root of mozilla.com to redirect to mozilla.org:

http://mozilla.com/<url> -> http://mozilla.org/<url>

http://mozilla.com/ -> http://mozilla.org/
http://mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new -> http://mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new

Comment 1

[James Long (:jlongster)]

The above isn't correct. There's a special redirect at the root of mozilla.com that should redirect to mozilla.org/firefox. So here are the rules:

http://mozilla.com/ -> http://mozilla.org/firefox
http://mozilla.com/<path> -> http://mozilla.org/<path>

The root page at mozilla.org will continue to show the current community page, and mozilla.com will become the product funnel.

The difficulty is that we don't want users who type in http://mozilla.com/ to go through two redirects, which will happen like this:

mozilla.com -> mozilla.org/firefox -> mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new

We should optimize this by running the locale detection on mozilla.com and redirecting the user straight the full URL on .org.

Comment 2

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

The general redirects should be 301s to make sure search engines update their referencing.

For the root mozilla.com, if we do mozilla.com -> mozilla.org/{locale}/firefox/[fx|new] in one step, it should be a 302.

If it's a two step redirect it shoudld be:
mozilla.com -> mozilla.org/firefox 301
mozilla.org/firefox -> mozilla.org/{locale}/firefox/[fx|new] 302.

Comment 3

[mcbmoz]

(In reply to Anthony Ricaud (:rik) from comment #2)
> The general redirects should be 301s to make sure search engines update
> their referencing.
> 
> For the root mozilla.com, if we do mozilla.com ->
> mozilla.org/{locale}/firefox/[fx|new] in one step, it should be a 302.
> 
> If it's a two step redirect it shoudld be:
> mozilla.com -> mozilla.org/firefox 301
> mozilla.org/firefox -> mozilla.org/{locale}/firefox/[fx|new] 302.

Thanks so much for adding Anthony :-) 

James, who should we assign this bug to? someone in IT?

Comment 4

[James Long (:jlongster)]

This is all being handled in bug 677305.