681572 - [404] https://www.mozilla.org/download.html

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

http://www-dev.allizom.org/download.html redirects to production http://mozilla.org/projects/ it should rather be http://www-dev.allizom.org/projects/

Comment 1

[Mike Alexis [:malexis]]

Huh, still points to http://mozilla.org/projects/

Raymond now that we're on Bedrock, can you fix this redirect?

Comment 2

[saoravpratihaar]

(In reply to Mike Alexis [:malexis] from comment #1)
> Huh, still points to http://mozilla.org/projects/
> 
> Raymond now that we're on Bedrock, can you fix this redirect?

I can fix this.

Comment 3

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

(In reply to saoravpratihaar from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mike Alexis [:malexis] from comment #1)
> > Huh, still points to http://mozilla.org/projects/
> > 
> > Raymond now that we're on Bedrock, can you fix this redirect?
> 
> I can fix this.

This is an old bug and probably should have been closed long ago, but it now seems the original URL is 404 anyway, which we should probably fix. I'm going to rename the bug title to be more descriptive. 

We should just redirect /download.html to /firefox/products/

saoravpratihaar, if you would like to work on this bug please let me know. You can find the bedrock docs here:

http://bedrock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Also the section on redirects will be relevant:

http://bedrock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/redirects.html

Comment 4

[Mainak Roy Chowdhury [:rcmainak]]

Do I need to add tests as well?

Comment 5

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/9b3c8ac2a936f3a355bde4ac2dfc391f7174f71e
Fix BUG 681572. redirect /download.html to /firefox/products/

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/e286a7a9807f7ae1ab94246a5f82056219cf8e97
Merge pull request #4443 from RCMainak/bug_681572

Fix BUG 681572. redirect /download.html to /firefox/products/

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to [github robot] from comment #5)
> Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock
> 
> https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/
> 9b3c8ac2a936f3a355bde4ac2dfc391f7174f71e
> Fix BUG 681572. redirect /download.html to /firefox/products/
> 
> https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/
> e286a7a9807f7ae1ab94246a5f82056219cf8e97
> Merge pull request #4443 from RCMainak/bug_681572
> 
> Fix BUG 681572. redirect /download.html to /firefox/products/

This commit has appeared to undo bug 988046 that was redirecting download.html to /firefox/new/. download.html was the old /new before converting over to the django version of the website.

Comment 7

[Chris More [:cmore]]

This redirect has promoted the /firefox/products/ page over top of /firefox/new/ in organic search results given the how much legacy SEO exists for download.html. You can still download from /firefox/products/, but downloading is not the primary purpose of the products page.

Comment 8

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

We can change this redirect, but just to be clear this has not reverted bug 988046. That bug added a redirect for /products/download.html, and this one is just for /download.html.

Comment 9

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Paul [:pmac] McLanahan from comment #8)
> We can change this redirect, but just to be clear this has not reverted bug
> 988046. That bug added a redirect for /products/download.html, and this one
> is just for /download.html.

ah ha! you're right. If this was really the cause of the SEO problem it is kind of strange given it was a 404 before. hmmmm.

I wonder if the 404 wasn't negatively impacting things before because that SEO juice was just thrown away, but as soon as the 404 went away, it took whatever SEO it would have given to /download.html and redirected it to /firefox/products/ and that was enough to promote it above /firefox/new/. The trend started right after this change was pushed, so it was likely the culprit.

Comment 10

[Chris More [:cmore]]

I checked 404's for /download.html and it is almost nothing. I am now questioning if this was the change.

It is just the only change I see recently that impacts /firefox/products/ https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commits/master

Comment 11

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/be0c4f0129f949ad391e45709d5354d5e424f86a
Bug 681572: Change /download.html redirect to /firefox/new/

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/7a1735a805ead2df342f2750875563d943f8ffa3
Merge pull request #4457 from pmac/update-download.html-redirect-again-681572

Bug 681572: Change /download.html redirect to /firefox/new/