general redirect for old BW links

[philipp]

the BW pages moved from bewelcome.org/xxx.php to bewelcome.org/bw/xxx.php

To keep compatible with the links in the translations (which could be changed) and on external sites (which can not be changed) we need to create a redirect function inside rox, that catches all dead end links to bewelcome.org/xxx.php and redirect them to bewelcome.org/bw/xxx.php.

As rox links don't contain .php it should be fairly easy to distinguish and handle in the rox controller.

[midsch]

related:  https://bewelcome.org/trac/ticket/151

[hkroger]

What about just updating .htaccess with relevant redirects?

[tobixen]

I believe something like this should work ... but I have no time testing now.

This file needs to be symlinked to .htaccess ... unfortunately we have the password restrictions in the .htaccess file on the server, so we would need to do some sysadmin to get it to work anyway.

=================================================================== --- .htaccess.example (revision 3249) +++ .htaccess.example (working copy) @@ -3,4 +3,7 @@

RewriteBase? / RewriteCond? %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond? %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

• RewriteRule? ^{.* index.php}

\ No newline at end of file + RewriteRule? ^/?([/]*).php /bw/$1.php + RewriteCond? %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f + RewriteCond? %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d + RewriteRule? ^{.* index.php}

[tobixen]

Hm ... new attempt

$ svn diff .htaccess.example 
Index: .htaccess.example
===================================================================
--- .htaccess.example   (revision 3249)
+++ .htaccess.example   (working copy)
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-  RewriteRule ^.* index.php
\ No newline at end of file
+  RewriteRule ^/?([^/]*).php /bw/$1.php
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+  RewriteRule ^.* index.php

[tobixen]

Fixed in r3285 - sorry the delay

[philipp]

works fine on alpha could you please introduce it for test as well

• we have to keep in mind to introduce it to production while releasing

[philipp]

woring on production, please introduce to test

[tobixen]

I've set this up.

[midsch]

I've checked  http://www.bewelcome.org/ when not logged in and all links validate at  http://validator.w3.org/checklink?check=Check&hide_type=all&summary=on&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bewelcome.org%2F

When logged in everything is fine as well.

Only in the main text area the links are still in the old format, like  http://www.bewelcome.org/member.php?cid=valerii but then the redirect works.