[tech] New website proposal (Or: How to beat a dead horse)

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Mar 13 07:47:24 WST 2009


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Mark Tearle wrote:
> Speaking as the person who set up the very first UCC website ...
> 
> I think we've got a winner both technically and usability wise for UCC.
> 
> 
> That said, don't break the URLs and things will be good.
> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

The conclusion I came to is that the easiest way to try and retain old 
URIs was with Apache redirects rather than attempting to fiddle the 
filesystem content to fit in the old hierarchy.

For some reason, Google's index hates the new-style .ucc pages, but might 
be a reasonable start for important URIs to remap.

[DAA]


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