Www.rust-lang.org: URLs for the old website should redirect (if appropriate)

[SimonSapin]

For example, https://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html to https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct instead of 404. Let’s try not to break existing links :)

[ashleygwilliams]

@SimonSapin if you have particular pages in mind (in addition to what you have already mentioned) please feel free to mention them here. I will make a PR soon to show the pattern for doing this and will welcome PRs to fill out the rest!

[SamWhited]

https://blog.rust-lang.org/feed.xml is also 404ing right now and my feed reader is broken.

[mbrubeck]

https://blog.rust-lang.org/feed.xml is also 404ing right now and my feed reader is broken.

This is rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org#307.

[SimonSapin]

I don’t have a specific URL in mind. But ideally, all of them. I think listing .md files in https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org would provide an exhaustive list?

[mbrubeck]

597 has redirects for all of the .md files in the old site except for faq.md, for which there is no reasonable equivalent in the new site.

[pickfire]

I think https://www.rust-lang.org/what/cli have some URLs that is redirecting to the 2018 edition book which is no longer distributed.

[mbrubeck]

I think https://www.rust-lang.org/what/cli have some URLs that is redirecting to the 2018 edition book which is no longer distributed.

These were fixed in b928a99ebad8ca90c2436069ddac50918e857d30.

Please file separate issues for other broken links that don't involve old www.rust-lang.org URIs.

[Aloso]

I guess, the most important redirects are

• https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/
• https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/documentation.html
• https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/install.html
• https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/community.html

Because these links often appear in search results.

It would also be a good idea to go to Google's and Bing's webmaster tools, submit a sitemap and make sure that all pages are indexed again.

[RalfJung]

Can we get this reopened? All the URLs mentioned here still yield 404.

Another one that went MIA is https://www.rust-lang.org/security.html.

[mbrubeck]

Another one that went MIA is https://www.rust-lang.org/security.html.

This is fixed by #597 along with all the others (except "faq.html" which has no equivalent in the new site). The fix is merged but not yet deployed.

[SimonSapin]

https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/pull/597 is merged. Maybe it’s not deployed to production yet? How is deployment managed?

[Aloso]

It works now.

[RalfJung]

Awesome. :) The issue can be closed then,