Has anyone considered turning http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/ into a server side redirect to http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/ ? I''ve seen a lot of people google for "ruby windows" and accidentally end up confused and on rubyforge''s home page after clicking that rubyforge link. If you change it to a 302 or meta redirect, google should bump the search results down for the old sourceforge page. It''s still #1 from where I''m sitting: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+windows Thanks, Mat
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Mat Schaffer <schapht at gmail.com> wrote:> Has anyone considered turning http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/ > into a server side redirect to http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/ ? > > I''ve seen a lot of people google for "ruby windows" and accidentally > end up confused and on rubyforge''s home page after clicking that > rubyforge link. If you change it to a 302 or meta redirect, google > should bump the search results down for the old sourceforge page. > > It''s still #1 from where I''m sitting: > http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+windows >Thank you Mat for the input. I don''t know if that is possible (need to be admin also on SF and request SF team to do it), but the page clearly states that the project has been moved to rubyforge: "Ruby Installer For Windows The Ruby Installer for Windows project has moved to RubyForge. Please go to here." I don''t see a lot of confusion when visiting the wiki page. In any case, a website is in the works, but still need a talented markup wizard ;-) Thank you and have a nice week. -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:> I don''t know if that is possible (need to be admin also on SF and > request SF team to do it), but the page clearly states that the > project has been moved to rubyforge:Anyone listed as an admin on the project should be able to add a meta- redirect. Curt Hubbs has all the permissions he needs assuming he still knows his sf.net password.> "Ruby Installer For Windows > The Ruby Installer for Windows project has moved to RubyForge. > > Please go to here." > > I don''t see a lot of confusion when visiting the wiki page.You''d be surprised. At least 4/5 people I''ve had search for this themselves click on the "RubyForge" link and end up on the rubyforge homepage looking confused. Curt, I''ve attached an updated file to this email. Just scp it up to shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/r/ru/rubyinstaller/htdocs/ index.html and all should we well. Thanks, Mat
On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mat Schaffer wrote:> Curt, I''ve attached an updated file to this email. Just scp it up > to shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/r/ru/rubyinstaller/htdocs/ > index.html and all should we well.With Curt''s help I changed this to a 302 redirect. It looks like some of the sf.net servers still have it cached because I''m still seeing the old page sometimes. Other times is a clean redirect. Let''s hope sf refreshes in a timely manner and google gets the hint :) Thanks all, Mat
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Mat Schaffer <schapht at gmail.com> wrote:> On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mat Schaffer wrote: > > Curt, I''ve attached an updated file to this email. Just scp it up > > to shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/r/ru/rubyinstaller/htdocs/ > > index.html and all should we well. > > With Curt''s help I changed this to a 302 redirect. It looks like some > of the sf.net servers still have it cached because I''m still seeing > the old page sometimes. Other times is a clean redirect. Let''s hope > sf refreshes in a timely manner and google gets the hint :) >Thank you Mat, sorry wasn''t more helpful :-) Have a nice week! -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams