Okay, after working with Evan C (sysadmin extraordinaire), and David W (idea person extraordinaire), here's is how we've tackled this issue.
The GEOSDOC space and all its child pages now redirect to http://docs.geoserver.org.* Want to see the old GEOSDOC space? No problem, go here: http://old.geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC ** The space is now viewable by Admins only, so you'll have to be logged in. And now we'll get the avalanche of people saying "where is this super important page!?", in which case we should make JIRA tickets. One last thing. For simplification, we didn't do any specific redirects. We can do this though (to the limits of our sysadmin's patience). For example: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/User+Tutorial+Shapefile could redirect here if we wanted: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/gettingstarted/shapefile-quickstart/index.html Thanks to both Evan and David, and to everyone on the thread for your thoughts. * Please let me know if you think it should instead redirect to http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/ . I wasn't sure. ** Might take a bit for the DNS entry to propagate. Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org On 1/30/2011 11:50 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Mike Pumphrey<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for your thoughts, folks. >> >>> what about >>> just locking down that space to authorized users and hide it from the >>> rest of the >>> world instead? >> >> I think that's perfectly fine. If we put the pages behind a login >> page, they might still show up in Google though (although I guess it >> could be as simple as an entry in robots.txt to prevent this). > > Mumble, don't see how. As far as Google is concerned those pages > should simply disappear. It should just take the time to have Google > reindex the docs site. > Is there any way to force or strongly suggest a revisit? > > Cheers > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
