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.
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 >
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-www->wosch Reassign to Wosch, who might be able to look at the webserver configuration.
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.