On Wednesday 19 February 2014 15:18:03 Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > - remove the old content where we can, possibly moving the old > > > tarballs to sourceforge > > Re: bandwidth: I expect to get a 1 gigabit fiber optic within the > next 6 months or so, maybe sooner, and so should be able to support > dramatically more content. > > > - install a permanent redirect to the actual gnucash front page if > > > > > anyone tries to load one of the old links. > > If this is saying what I think its saying, then yes, please. I > noticed a while ago that there's a lot pf gnucash-related link-rot. > There are dozens of older pop-software sites that wrote about GnuCash > over the years, and included URL's to now-missing content. Google > and yahoo and bing continue to dredge these up and show them to > people, who then click on the links. These show up as errors in the > log-file. At one point, I did a sweep of the log file, and installed > redirects for everything that I could find there, but perhaps its > time to do that again. Or possibly you have better technology for > this than I do; my hacks were low-level. > I parsed the logs for 404 messages earlier this week and have added redirects for the links that had a valid referral link. In all that fixed broken links on 5 or so old news/blog sites.
It also turned up some broken links in our own website code :( Got those fixed as well. If you're interested, the redirects are configured in .htaccess. It is my intention to do this from time to time. It had been a while though. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel