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Form filename redirects #15363

Closed jilladams closed 11 months ago

jilladams commented 1 year ago

Description or Additional Context

Over the last year, a handful of form filenames were updated. Redirects will ensure that any traffic to old filenames do not 404, and land on the new PDF filename.

We do not know analytics currently for traffic to these old paths that will now be 404s.

Note that the only URLs being adjusted are 'va.gov', because any other domains aren't able to have redirects coded by us (see comment for list).

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-2850a-091998-fill.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850a.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-2850d-fill.pdf New: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850d.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-2850-fill_BAK.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-2850c-fill.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850c.pd

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-10172.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-10172.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/10-10EC Fill 2017.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-10EC.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-10d-fill.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-10d.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VHA Form 10-5345a Fill-revision.pdf NEW: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-5345a.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/10-2649A fill.pdf > https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/10-2649A-fill.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA Form 10-7959c.pdf > https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA-10-7959c-fill.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/FINAL FORM Refusal of Transfer Form_508_RE 04 07 2015.pdf > https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA Form 10-8001.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA Form 10-10230a UNDUE REVIEW.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA-Form 10-10230a Unique_Hardship_Review.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/EISP Agreement.0003K-2 - 9-26-2019 updated.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/10-0003k-2.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VHA 10-493a TRICARE for Life Affirmation-espanol.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VHA 10-493 TRICARE for Life Affirmation-espanol.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850a.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-2850a-091998-fill.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850e.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-2850e-Fill.pdf

OLD: https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/A Form 10-0432a Market Pay Review and Approval Form.pdf https://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/VA_Form_10-0432a.pd

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jilladams commented 11 months ago

We can only redirect from va.gov. So: for redirects from subdomains, we need to pull that list out of the ticket body and add to comments here for reference.

List of links we can't redirect: OLD: http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/26-8149.pd http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA-26-8149-ARE.pdf

OLD: https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/OF8-85.pdf?forceDownload=1 https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/OF8-85.pdf

OLD: https://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/115990 https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/SF252-83.pdf

OLD: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116402 https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/SF_88.pdf

OLD: http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/SF2801.pdf https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/SF2801-13.pdf

OLD: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116014 https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/SF26-22.pdf

OLD: http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf1188.pdf https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/sf1188.pdf

OLD: http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf1152.pdf https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/SF1152-11.pdf

OLD: https://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/150834 https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/OF1164-17c.pdf

jilladams commented 11 months ago

Spoke with DaveC: Redirects should not be long-lived. If we bother to redirect, that should be based on traffic / volume. He would prefer we not act on this ticket, and close as no op for those reasons. Closing.