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/api/ redirect broken #80

Closed chrysn closed 3 months ago

chrysn commented 3 years ago

duckduckgo still has search results cached at locations like https://riot-os.org/api/native__cli__eui__provider_8h.html. I didn't actively check with the old website, but it appears those would earlier redirect to https://doc.riot-os.org/native__cli__eui__provider_8h.html, and now they 404.

Can this be fixed here (given we're building a static site), or does this need to be redirected at the server itself?

waehlisch commented 3 years ago

i'm wondering whether we should just wait until cache expires. when i seach for native__cli__eui__provider_8h.html. i already get a link to https://doc.riot-os.org/native__cli__eui__provider_8h.html as first search result.

chrysn commented 3 years ago

Judging from the Python 2 documentation, that time may be measured in months -- and that's only search results, not bookmarks and incoming links (hello SEO).

If nginx is used, this is a one-line config item at the ingress point:

rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ https://doc.riot-os.org/$1 permanent;
chrysn commented 3 months ago

It seems that 3 years later, search engines have given up on those paths, and I haven't seen any external links coming in -- and while by now we do have the tools to address this (because the web site is now hosted on tatooine), it has probably become obsolete.