-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Le 14/07/2013 12:23, Holger Wansing a écrit : > David Prévot <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 14/07/2013 04:17, Holger Wansing a écrit : >> >>> Why keep an old […] URL? >> >> Because we can’t change external links pointing to our own website, and >> making existing URL fall into 404 is just bad practice. Please, provide >> the needed Redirect setup to deploy in all www.d.o mirrors before >> breaking any further URL (unless you’ve double checked there is no >> external link pointing to the old one). > > So would it be a possible compromise of this pros and cons, to keep > the old file and copy it to the new name, too? Resulting in the old > (probably outdated) content sitting in <old_url> and the new content in > <new_url>?
No, as already pointed before, proper 301 Redirect is the way to handle URL move. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster#line-10 points to the apache conf, please send your patches to [email protected] before moving any further URL. > Another aspect of this discussion: how to deal with companies which have > requested to be removed from the list? Removing their file would also result > in an 404 on debian site. That seems like the way to go, yes: 404 is the proper way to state the content doesn’t exist any more. Regards David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJR4tXoAAoJEAWMHPlE9r080wkH/AmG/TZjYR3C91QbLHb51kRw KJhsnQbUYEpVdQdd2BhbddzzoXz5gidBHTEUYrOPKigPFvTk4EJKwWrmJw7w5n6A tGkfe/a8spkFld+HJDPDGoW/nElxIJINqOuAHT0q9iwz2xOA8dtWFkN4elYh68Jr 8F86mSNyYtZ3Et6UI35VmGREalGu0ZQsoeN1C0/6JmJ4rfV0IIFKfvQ+sq4jAE1s toVCy96AHfhAMqUf69rBQ0zvoiJ4cutnFaaTLb8WjVFgHI/V8/JwJeTf86IGIj0e vKYXB+0webOlowbKEEr2srJFIaWPJogbBZfmMK/uhV3xTueCor0Yb2x9oy/K6iE= =C+n7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
