New Fluid Project site

[Jonathan Hung]

Thanks for finding that Justin! I had been doing a search with the keyword
"gh-pages" or "github" which gave different results.

This helps a lot. I will investigate these plugins.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:

> We could look at these docpad plugins for managing the redirects.
>
> https://www.npmjs.org/package/docpad-plugin-redirector
> https://github.com/docpad/docpad-plugin-cleanurls
>
> We should also consider what urls we actually need to maintain redirects
> for now and going forward.
>
> thanks
> Justin
> > On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Antranig Basman <
> Antranig.Basman at colorado.edu> wrote:
> >
> > The link "canonical" approach seems reasonable to me. It retains our
> site as static infrastructure, and I don't think we will have an
> unmanageable number of redirects to maintain. We should check that the user
> experience of this approach is reasonable, e.g. on mobile browsers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Antranig
> >
> > On 01/12/2014 15:25, Jonathan Hung wrote:
> >> I've been investigating how to set up redirects for the new Fluid
> >> website on github pages.
> >>
> >> The published method of performing a redirect on gh-pages is to use a
> >> plugin with Jekyll (see this document
> >> <https://help.github.com/articles/redirects-on-github-pages/>).
> However,
> >> we are using Docpad, not Jekyll - so this approach to redirects will not
> >> work for us.
> >>
> >> One alternative is to use Javascript to handle redirects, but this
> >> technique may not be desirable as it does not provide a HTTP 301 -
> >> Permanently Moved error code.
> >>
> >> Another approach is to use a meta "refresh" + link "canonical" as
> >> documented in this blog post
> >> <
> http://konradpodgorski.com/blog/2013/10/21/how-i-migrated-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-octopress/#redirect-301-on-github-pages
> >.
> >> This provides a 301 error which search engines like, but requires
> >> individual HTML files for each redirect we want. This may be acceptable
> >> if the number of redirects is not too large.
> >>
> >> Finally, we can consider hosting our website on our own web server. This
> >> makes redirects a lot easier to manage, but requires resources for
> >> server maintenance and requires an extra step of deploying from github
> >> to the webserver whenever content needs updating.
> >>
> >> Anyone else have thoughts?
> >>
> >> - Jon.
> >>
> >>
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