Bad URL goes out to 100 people - Best Practice in the Wake
Support Peoples, I sent out a URL to 100 people that had a period "." appended. Was: example.com/page. Should have been: example.com/page I sent it 3 hours ago and just discovered it a few minutes ago. I'm dreading going in to my log file to see all the page not founds... The short term answer is to create a path alias "example.com/page." that points to " example.com/page". In the longer run, though, I'm worried about messing up my Google Analytics statistics -- people bookmarking the page which will then reinforce the problem, etc, etc... Is there a more elegant solution to this? Thanks, Shai
You'll want to look into setting up 301 (permanent) redirect rules. Assuming you are using Apache, you could probably add something like "Redirect 301 /page. /page" to your .htaccess file. However, I'm not sure if any special considerations need to be taken to handle the period when defining the redirect. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai@content2zero.com> wrote:
Support Peoples,
I sent out a URL to 100 people that had a period "." appended.
Was: example.com/page. Should have been: example.com/page
I sent it 3 hours ago and just discovered it a few minutes ago. I'm dreading going in to my log file to see all the page not founds... The short term answer is to create a path alias "example.com/page." that points to " example.com/page".
In the longer run, though, I'm worried about messing up my Google Analytics statistics -- people bookmarking the page which will then reinforce the problem, etc, etc...
Is there a more elegant solution to this?
Thanks,
Shai
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Quoting "Shai Gluskin" <shai@content2zero.com>:
Support Peoples,
I sent out a URL to 100 people that had a period "." appended.
Was: example.com/page. Should have been: example.com/page
I sent it 3 hours ago and just discovered it a few minutes ago. I'm dreading going in to my log file to see all the page not founds... The short term answer is to create a path alias "example.com/page." that points to " example.com/page".
In the longer run, though, I'm worried about messing up my Google Analytics statistics -- people bookmarking the page which will then reinforce the problem, etc, etc...
Is there a more elegant solution to this?
GlobalRedirect - I think - will help. http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect GlobalRedirect (which is beneficial for SEO in general) does a number of things including: * Checks the current URL for an alias and does a 301 redirect to it if it is not being used. Provided that example.com/page. is an alias for example.com/page (and it sound like it is), if you install and enable GlobalRedirect and user accessing example.com/page. would automatically be redirected to example.com/page Users would never bookmark example.com/page. as it's not shown in the web browser for long enough! However, please check that you are happy with *all* the effects of GlobalRedirect before installing and enabling the module. Regards. Phil L. -- http://www.philipnet.com/ http://windowsadvice.com/blogs/philipnet/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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