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Old-URL-scheme redirect(s) broken #28

Open kingjon3377 opened 4 years ago

kingjon3377 commented 4 years ago

Originally, the forum was located at http://www.holyworlds.org/fantasy/. Much later, after spinning off and then merging with the SF and HF forums, it was moved to https://holyworlds.org, but to keep old links (scattered thickly throughout the forum, and less thickly in various other places around the Web) from breaking there was a redirect so that any URL accessed under the old prefix came to the same place under the root. (As well as, maybe, redirects so links to old SF, HF, and Citadel threads that were moved over worked too?) That /fantasy/-to-/ redirect is now no longer working; for example, this link, which I put in this post a little over a year ago, now gets a 404 rather than the thread it targeted.

aidan-casey commented 4 years ago

I believe this is probably from when Joel moved HW to the new server, those redirects were likely not carried over. Cannot really do anything about it since I no longer have creds, but it should be an easy fix.

BarelyAPrincess commented 4 years ago

The issue is actually connected to the new server using Nginx over Apache, which doesn't support .htaccess files. I've switched back to Apache. Let me know if that corrects the issue.

aidan-casey commented 4 years ago

Given that Nginx IS the new server I’m not entirely sure how that’s different than anything I described. 😉

If you desire to stay with Nginx, have a look at Nginx redirect directives:

https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/redirecting-urls-using-nginx/