Bug 181928

Summary:	on website, remove old Handbook files affected by move/rename
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	mike
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Glen Barber <gjb>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description mike 2013-09-08 05:40:00 UTC

On www.freebsd.org, there are handbook files that were left behind after
moves/renames.

For example, here are old versions still showing up in search engines:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-dialup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html

The current versions are here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-dialup.html

There may be more.

Fix: 

The old files should be deleted, and the web server should be configured to
permanently redirect the old URLs to the new.

To prevent it from happening in the future, the doc build procedure will
need some adjustment, as per gjb's comment at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013-September/022562.html

Comment 1 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2013-09-08 05:41:26 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->gjb

Grab.

Comment 2 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2014-06-20 10:38:29 UTC

Files that are removed are deleted from the web server once a week.

It is not feasible to redirect old files to new files each time this happens, as that would require a new entry in the web server configuration.