Bug 129969

Summary:	Need 301 moved permanently errors returned for www.freebsd.org/FAQ/* content
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	murray
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description murray 2008-12-27 04:10:05 UTC

One of the most common invalid links on the entire www.FreeBSD.org site is 

http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.ascii

This used to be a valid link, but was moved.  http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ provides a redirect to the new location, but the links to specific files in that directory, eg HTML, postscript, and ascii builds of the documentation, return a 404 instead of a content-moved response.

We should redirect users and crawlers to the new location of these builds of the FAQ.

Fix: 

Setup a redirect on the www.freebsd.org webserver for the entire FAQ/ directory hierarchy, not just the single /FAQ page.

Comment 1 murray 2008-12-27 04:13:27 UTC

Oops that should be HTTP 301, Moved Permanently responses, of course,
not HTTP 403 Forbidden.

Murray

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:10 PM,  <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your problem report.
> It has the internal identification `www/129969'.
> The individual assigned to look at your
> report is: freebsd-www.
>
> You can access the state of your problem report at any time
> via this link:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129969
>
>>Category:       www
>>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>>Synopsis:       Need 403 moved errors returned for www.freebsd.org/FAQ/* content
>>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 27 04:10:05 UTC 2008
>

Comment 2 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2009-11-05 19:26:22 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->wosch

Reassign to Wosch, who might be able to look at the webserver configuration.

Comment 3 Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer

2010-12-29 13:12:40 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I checked the error log files and we have up to 5 clicks a day  
for /FAQ/* . I can live with this number, we have up to 16,000 HTTP 404 errors 
on www.freebsd.org. Google is clever enough to find the correct URL for 
the FreeBSD FAQ.