www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash

[Linas Vepstas]

Excellent, thanks!


On 20 February 2014 02:33, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> 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
>