One can put a forwarding pointer that automatically redirects particular pages. This might not be feasible for things like old javadocs - which have a very large number of pages...
Is there a technique that can redirect a set of web url addresses starting with a common prefix? -Marshall On 11/28/2017 8:03 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Any links on third-party websites or papers etc. referring to the old > documentation > would also break. Would it be worth trying to add some custom 404 page which > would > tell people where to find the current documentation? > > -- Richard > >> On 27.11.2017, at 21:02, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The docs/ in the uima website has a large amount of folders/files from older >> releases. >> >> I'm thinking of moving these to another svn project under >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima, say >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/website-archive >> >> This could be done using the svn move style - so no "space" for the data >> would >> be consumed. >> >> The advantage: svn operations on the uima-website would proceed faster >> because >> there would be many less files to check. >> >> ---------------- >> >> Alternative: do an svn delete of the older folders/files in docs/. This is >> more-or-less the same as above, except it becomes more difficult to find the >> older files (you have to go thru history, etc). >> >> ---------------- >> >> Opinions? I'm leaning toward an explicit website-archive "project". >> >> -Marshall >
