We no longer use the interstitial page we had for downloads initiate from our download pages such as: https://www.mozilla.org/de/download/?product=firefox-29.0&os=win&lang=de We should redirect all traffic to these pages to firefox/new/, according to cmore this is mostly search engines. That would allow us to delete this old content on the PHP side

Thanks for the PR! We can also denote GA once this change is merged and pushed.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/c9b08b6b79dc9e97a8df493a4328cb3802093b33 Bug 1006616: redirect {locale}/download/* to {locale}/firefox/new/ https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/c0e8b2cdd958df550c76b6329c2495e15071e42b Merge pull request #1974 from pascalchevrel/Bug-1006616-redirect-localized-interstitial-download-page Bug 1006616: redirect {locale}/download/* to {locale}/firefox/new/

This broke non-en-US beta download pages. Example: http://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/beta/ I checked stats on people visiting /firefox/new/ with ?product in the URL that is caused by the above pull request and it is affecting about 16,000 requests a day. Let's comment out or remove the redirect in comment 3 until we have a better solution.

Redirects look good: curl -IL https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:03:06 GMT Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=600 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:03:06 GMT Expires: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:13:07 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive X-Robots-Tag: noodp X-Frame-Options: DENY curl -IL https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:04:36 GMT Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#beta Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=600 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:04:36 GMT Expires: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:14:36 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive X-Robots-Tag: noodp X-Frame-Options: DENY curl -IL https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/beta/?utm_source=test HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:05:05 GMT Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#beta?utm_source=test Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=600 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:05:05 GMT Expires: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:15:05 GMT Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive X-Robots-Tag: noodp X-Frame-Options: DENY The only redirects that don't pass along #beta or #aurora is when you don't include the locale, which I think is the locale redirect and not this redirect: curl -IL https://www-dev.allizom.org/firefox/aurora/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:06:27 GMT Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/firefox/channel/#aurora Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock1.dev.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Language Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0, private Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:06:27 GMT Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/channel/ Pragma: no-cache Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive X-Robots-Tag: noodp

Actually, the no-locale redirects seem to work fine. Redirects look good.

Closing this as bug 1009247 fixes this and I was commenting in the wrong bug. :)