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Shameless self promotion: this is the problem my project sets out to solve, because while this advice is obvious and well known, URIs keep changing and sites keep breaking.

So I'm developing a service that every day crawl your website and tests every single resource, be it regular links, images, CSS, fonts, and also external links over one has little control. And one of the features coming soon post-launch is getting notified if you change an URL and forgot to set a redirect from the old one, breaking SEO, bookmarks, and this very advice.

I'm starting a closed alpha this month and launch the next, so if you're interested in trying this out, send me an email.

https://bernard.app



And will it offer (efficient) copy-n-paste redirect rules to add to your Apache / ISS / etc config to fix the issue? That would be interesting.


Not yet but that is an excellent idea. I'll add it to my todo list :-)

EDIT: it's harder than it seems, because it is almost impossible to tell what is the new URL if you forgot to set up the redirect.


And you have no idea of the context available in the config file, but that may be where the value lies...

(Feel free to add earth.org.uk to your trial if you wish, email as here and/or on the site. I can share config with you.)




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