Re: Link Management
Robert Koberg <rob-/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cms.cms-forum.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
cms-list wrote: >On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:53:11 -0400, cms-list wrote > > >>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:43:46 -0700, Robert Koberg wrote >> >> >>>To me, a redirect is an ugly hack. >>> >>> >>What alternatives are available to support for instance obsolete >>vanity URLs? >> >> > >I wonder if a good URL rewriting scheme can resolve this - what the webserver >renders is the new page, but what the browser sees is the old URL with no HTTP >302, meta refresh, JavaScript or other redirect. Again, logging of obsolete >URLs should be implemented so the links referencing them can be updated. > The problem I have with this type of strategy is maintainence and server configuration. For example, a typical project for us would have, say, 3 stages/virtual hosts with: http://dev.projId.livestoryboard.com and http://qa.projId.livestoryboard.com on one of our linux/apache servers (we are an ASP) and: http://www.projDomain.com either on another one of our linux servers or on some (popssibly MSWindows using IIS) machine under the clients control. Your situation is most likely different, but the same type of maintainence issues would come up if you moved to a different machine, or changed servers (say, moving from IIS to Linux). Just seems like some easily forgettable headache material. best, -Rob