[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] SqueakMap: adding/editing releases

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2012-12-03, at 19:34, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:

> On 12/03/2012 11:18 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> On 3 December 2012 17:01, Ken Causey<ken at kencausey.com>  wrote:
>>> Frank said:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm getting 502s when trying to edit releases. (For instance,
>>>> 
>>>> http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/account/package/00e786be-3742-4976-be5b-ddfb6b51aeda/editreleases)
>>>> 
>>>> Is there something wrong with SqueakMap? Perhaps SM just needs a touch
>>>> of the lash?
>>>> 
>>>> frank
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That URL is pointing to a very very old hostname that hasn't existed or been
>>> in use for years.  Where are you seeing a link like that?
>> 
>> I googled for "squeakmap"; it's the first result.
>> 
>> frank
> 
> As Frank has pointed out, what I thought was a no longer existing hostname does in fact still exist; it is just another name for map.squeak.org.  But this may not quite work as well as it once did and really we should have disabled that hostname some time ago.  Since we didn't Google has happily continued to index packages under that hostname.
> 
> So for now what I have done is change the configuration so that if a map1.squeakfoundation.org URL is used it is automatically redirected to the same map.squeak.org URL and with a permanent redirection status. Hopefully google and other search indexers will register the redirection and correct their indexes.
> 
> Ken


When we migrate mailman we should get rid of the use of the old url there, too.

- Bert -