793824 - Redirect mozilla.org/developer to developer.mozilla.org

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Legacy PHP system, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Please implement a blanket redirect from

mozilla.org/developer

to

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Developer_Guide

Discussion and approval here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758687

Comment 1

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Should we be doing this on our end (webops), or should this go in the .htaccess file that already has lots of redirects in it (webdev)? My inclination is the latter, just to keep things consolidated... it's messy enough without having redirects somewhere else too. :)

Comment 2

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Jake, good point. Yep this should go in the .htaccess file, I had thought webops could update this but based on the above it's webdev. I will move this one, and the other ones I added.

Comment 3

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Attachment: Patch file

Comment 4

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Comment on attachment 666732 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch file

Review of attachment 666732 [details] [diff] [review]:
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> RedirectMatch permanent ^/contact/ http://www.mozilla.org/about/contact.html

You seem to have included an extra redirect in your diff by mistake. Please remove it.

> RedirectMatch permanent ^/developer/ https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Developer_Guide

Add a ? after the last / to make it optional, in case someone types in https://mozilla.org/developer

Looks good otherwise. :D

Comment 5

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Re-doing the patch.

1. Added the ?
2. Sep patch for /contact
3. As per discussion yesterday removing the dirs that are being completely redirected

Comment 6

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Attachment: Added redirect, removed directory

Comment 7

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Comment on attachment 667053 [details] [diff] [review]
Added redirect, removed directory

Anthony can you take a look at the above, we are having the following behavior on dev and mkelly is stumped.

The above patch is on dev and:

https://www-dev.allizom.org/developer/

Goes to

https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/developer/

Expected to go to https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Developer_Guide