= phenomenon =
Beaker has recently moved from our Fedora Hosted Trac instance:
https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/
to a new dedicated web site located here:
http://beaker-project.org/
As you can see we have updated the front page to that effect. But it would be nice to put proper HTTP redirects in place.
If the Fedora infrastructure team could just redirect http://fedorahosted.org/beaker -> http://beaker-project.org/old-trac/ we will create redirects for all the old Trac URLs to the relevant pages on our new web site.
= reason =
Having nice redirects in place will help users and search engines get to the right place in the new Beaker web site.
= recommendation =
Add the following to the Apache config for fedorahosted.org:
Redirect /beaker http://beaker-project.org
Sorry, for the recommendation I meant
{{{ Redirect /beaker http://beaker-project.org/old-trac }}}
Done. I note that /old-trac/ is currently redirecting to / there, but thats up to you to fix. ;)
Let us know if you need anything further.
Thanks Kevin.
I've already put a bunch of redirects in place on beaker-project.org for the pages from our old wiki, for example:
and those are working. But it looks like every URL on https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/ is just redirecting to http://beaker-project.org/old-trac/ without preserving the extra path info:
{{{ $ curl -s -o/dev/null -w '%{redirect_url}\n' https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/wiki/Packages http://beaker-project.org/old-trac/ }}}
whereas that one should redirect to http://beaker-project.org/old-trac/wiki/Packages for example.
I thought that's what the Redirect directive should do in Apache, but I didn't test it out. Maybe it needs a !RewriteRule? Something like
{{{ RewriteRule ^/beaker(/.*)?$ http://beaker-project.org/old-trac$1 }}}
ok. I think I have this working now. ;)
Can you confirm? If it's not, please re-open and I will be happy to fix it further.
Looks good Kevin, thanks very much!
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