Ticket #421 (closed maintenance: fixed)
Subdomains: list from user: normal?
| Reported by: | ed | Owned by: | chris |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Live server | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Estimated Number of Hours: | 0.5 | |
| Add Hours to Ticket: | 0 | Billable?: | yes |
| Total Hours: | 0.3 |
Description
This from a user: could you read/think/check/let us know what you think Chris?
Recently, Google announced a change in the page rank mechanism:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2012/10/a-new-tool-to-disavow-...
I've noticed that I get hundreds of links to our site because
transitionnetwork.org can be prefixed by litteraly anything, thus duplicating
its contents and unique URLs. This kind of deduplication is not good since
google will consider the links to be of a poorer quality. As an example, I
get a list of links with the following originating URLs:
222.transitionnetwork.org
2ftotnes.transitionnetwork.org
2fwww.transitionnetwork.org
2www.transitionnetwork.org
dir.transitionnetwork.org
edmitchell.transitionnetwork.org
httpstatic.transitionnetwork.org
jims-test-presence.transitionnetwork.org
maail.transitionnetwork.org
mean.www.transitionnetwork.org
news.transitionnetwork.org
newstats.transitionnetwork.org
smtp.transitionnetwork.org
stories.transitionnetwork.org
w3ww.transitionnetwork.org
www.transitionnetwork.org
wwww.transitionnetwork.org
I understand you want to catchall typos like wwww instead of www, but I think
the better way would be to redirect all traffic to www instead of actually
allow to browse the site with wwww.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by chris
- Status changed from new to accepted
- Estimated Number of Hours changed from 0.0 to 0.5
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by chris
- Add Hours to Ticket changed from 0.0 to 0.3
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from accepted to closed
- Component changed from DNS to Live server
- Total Hours changed from 0.0 to 0.3
The wild card line:
ServerAlias *.transitionnetwork.org
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/transitionnetwork.org.conf was moved from the main 8080 and 443 virtual hosts to the ones doing the redirect for transitionnetwork.org to www.transitionnetwork.org and these virtual host were moved to the end of the file as the wild card need to come at the end.
I was going to fix this with the switch to nginx see ticket:403 but as that is stalled I'll fix it for apache.