685044 - mozilla.com (without www) is not redirecting correctly

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[James Long (:jlongster)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #685010 +++

Any "mozilla.com" URL is incorrectly redirecting to mozilla.org.

mozilla.com/support -> mozilla.org/firefox/support
mozilla.com/firefox -> mozilla.org/firefox/firefox

More generally, mozilla.com/<path> is redirecting to mozilla.org/firefox/<path>. Please make it only redirect to mozilla.org/<path>.

The URL http://mozilla.com/ *should* redirect to http://mozilla.org/firefox/, but it's the only one that should.

Comment 2

[James Long (:jlongster)]

I should have made this more clear: www.mozilla.com seems to be redirecting fine. It's only without the www that this happens.

Jake: should I usually assign to Corey first?

Comment 3

[Corey Shields [:cshields]]

(In reply to James Long (:jlongster) from comment #2)
> Jake: should I usually assign to Corey first?

No, when you file IT bugs leave them unassigned ([e-mail]) and we will triage and assign them to the appropriate person.

Assigning one yourself, unless explicitly requested by the admin, runs the risk of assigning to someone on vacation, baby leave, etc.. and it will sit.

Comment 4

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

This is happening because mozilla.com is handled as a separate VirtualHost from the actual site, www.mozilla.com. This is a pretty standard pattern we have... the non-www vhost is very simple, just a redirect to the www vhost. That redirect was changed to www.mozilla.org/firefox, in order to avoid an extra jump.

I've removed the separate vhost, and made mozilla.com a ServerAlias to the main one. This means the same redirect rules will apply to it.

This should be fixed now. Since the original redirect was a 301 (permanent), you'll also want to clear your browser cache to see the change.

Comment 5

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pm-web04
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:43:23 GMT
Location: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=1000
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0
X-Cache-Info: cached