837883 - Redirect /firefox/firefox.exe to /firefox/ [Bedrock]

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Chris More [:cmore]]

According to Web Analytics, the most common page that is causing 404 errors is:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/firefox.exe

All these users are coming from Firefox and seem to be mainly from Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia and lebanon. They are direct traffic and not from search. They are consistent over a time and throwing a ton of 404's.

I propose to send all users accessing /firefox/firefox.exe to /firefox/. The /firefox/ redirect will get the users to the right location to download Firefox. When this bug is completed, I will add a annotation to Google Analytics and monitor if this reduces the 404's.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

This redirect should *not* be case sensitive since there are variations for the 404's.

Comment 2

[Chris More [:cmore]]

pmac: thoughts on redirecting these to / (homepage) given we have no idea why this is happening and downloading is probably not their intention. Showing them the homepage promotions may be that bad.

Comment 3

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

Agreed. Updated the PR to redirect to homepage.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/619

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

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

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/21fdc4010a1c5b203b1317b09367f5c86cca2a28
Bug 837883: Redirect /firefox/firefox.exe to home page.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/0f7cf95c76c3badb78c699aee7b9564a72d0f100
Merge pull request #619 from pmclanahan/bug-837883-firefox.exe-redirect

Bug 837883: Redirect /firefox/firefox.exe to /.

Comment 5

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

https://www.allizom.org/firefox/firefox.exe --> https://www.allizom.org/en-US/

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox.exe > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/firefox.exe > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

Thanks!