Bug #3911: Old cgi-bin references are still being rendered by 1.8.1 registry code - Metacat - Ecoinformatics Redmine

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Bug #3911

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Old cgi-bin references are still being rendered by 1.8.1 registry code

Added by Shaun Walbridge about 15 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Shaun Walbridge

Category:

registry

Target version:

Unspecified

Start date:

03/20/2009

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Bugzilla-Id:

3911

Description

References to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/cgi-bin/ should be redirected to their new and permanent home at /knb/cgi-bin/. This should be easy as the following rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/(.*) http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/cgi-bin/$1 [L,R=301]

Test this on dev, and pending no unforeseen consequences deploy to KNB.

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Updated by Matt Jones about 15 years ago

This type of a redirect will simply shield the actual URI problem in the source. Can't we find these problems and fix them? If we don't, then people at other sites that install it will likely run into problems when the URLs don't work for them without the redirects.

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Updated by Shaun Walbridge about 15 years ago

The URLs in the pages themselves (e.g. the 'Registry' link from the NCEAS skin) will work fine, only preexisting references are affected. This has been tested and works fine on dev, the following lines were added:

RewriteEngine   On
    RewriteLog      "/var/log/httpd/rewrite_log" 
    RewriteLogLevel 5
    RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/(.*) http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/knb/cgi-bin/$1 [L,R=301]

Additionally, the ScriptAlias and <Directory> blocks for the old /cgi-bin/ reference were removed.

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