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

Mark Tearle mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Mar 13 18:44:51 WST 2009


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, David Adam wrote:

> 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]

Aaah, memories of a happier life back in the good ol' UCS days writing
long files full of redirects ....


Mark
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