Remap Manager Issues

(Lewis) #1

Squiz Matrix version 5.5.3.3.

We’ve recently updated our website and we’re trying to use the remap manager to automatically serve up the most relevant equivalent page on our new website.

In the remap manager, we’ve got things like https://oursite.com/baz redirects to https://oursite.com/foo/bar/baz but we’re finding inconsistent results. In some browsers on some devices, the redirect is working and on other, we’re receiving a 404 error.

Also, is it necessary to add both the www and non-www versions of URLs to the remap manager or will it work either way i.e. we only need to add www.oursite.com and a request for simply oursite.com will still work?

(David Schoen) #2

A lot of the time a www redirect is set up independently of Matrix e.g at the nginx/apache config layer or even just by having the non-www variant on something other than Matrix. Generally this is preferable as it reduces the number of copies of a page that will end up in cache or be served to search crawlers (this used to have a bad effect on SEO).

It’s possible the 404 difference is just between the www and non-www variant and some of the browsers are simply not displaying the www in the URL.

(Lewis) #3

Thanks David. We’ve implemented a rewrite on the server to force https://oursite.com (non-www) and uploaded the list of remaps without www again, as appropriate.