runrev forums - internal server error

[Richard Gaskin]

Nonsanity wrote:

> The problem was probably due to a change on the server side that made the
> old URL
>
> forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/...
>
> Change to:
>
> forums.runrev.com/...
>
> So if you used a bookmark that had the phpBB2 in it, it would fail.
> Likewise, search results all had the wrong form in them. I noticed that on
> Saturday and would manually edit the URLs after following them to a 404.

This is a long-standing issue for all web sites, so more than half a 
decade ago I suggested RunRev handle this as other important sites do, 
using redirects whenever significant URLs change:

<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2156>

The cost to RunRev and the community as a whole in not implementing 
redirects would seem far greater than the cost of adopting this common 
solution.

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