Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Description • 12 years ago

I just came across a page on www.mozilla.org that I had no idea exists and has no analytics on it.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/home/

It appears to only exist for en-US.

It appears in bug 540908, google.com/firefox was copied to firefox.com/home and when mozilla.com and mozilla.org was combined, this /home directory was created. When we finally completed the migration from google.com/firefox, we adjusted DNS to redirect users to start.mozilla.org. Thus, www.mozilla.org/home/ has no purpose and I believe it was an artifact of the mozilla.com and mozilla.org website combination project.

Code is here:

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/en-US/home/index.html?view=log

Top redirect options:

1) Redirect to /firefox/

2) Redirect to start.mozilla.org

It is possible that these users may not be able to update and start.mozilla.org would provide appropriate messages to those users who can to upgrade their browser. I vote for option 1 unless we want to pull log files to find out who the users are.

	Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]
	Comment 1 • 12 years ago

I also vote for option 1.

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 12 years ago

(In reply to jbertsch from comment #1)
> I also vote for option 1.

What if these users cannot upgrade because they are running an OS that cannot run the latest version of Firefox? Though, putting the redirect in there would eliminate this page from search and we have no idea how people are getting to this page. Log files are the only answer to this.

	Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]
	Comment 3 • 12 years ago

How much effort to pull the log files?

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 4 • 12 years ago

Open bug 845614 to see if we can get some data.

	Paul [:pmac] McLanahan Assignee
	Comment 5 • 12 years ago

Those results are surprising. Most are Fx 18/19 on some version of Windows.

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 6 • 12 years ago

(In reply to Paul McLanahan [:pmac] from comment #5)
> Those results are surprising. Most are Fx 18/19 on some version of Windows.

Yeah, I wonder if it is an old profile value for their homepage that just has transferred between upgrades?

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 7 • 12 years ago

Search for "mozilla home" or "firefox home" it may be in your list on Google near the top. I really have no idea how people are finding this URL, but they are. I made a comment in the metrics bug to find out how many are Power PC Macs since they can't upgrade.

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 8 • 11 years ago

Let's just do option 1. Redirect /en-US/home/ to /en-US/firefox/.

	Paul [:pmac] McLanahan Assignee
	Comment 9 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #8)
> Let's just do option 1. Redirect /en-US/home/ to /en-US/firefox/.

You got it. Just en-US or all locales? I'm guessing all.

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 10 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Paul McLanahan [:pmac] from comment #9)
> (In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #8)
> > Let's just do option 1. Redirect /en-US/home/ to /en-US/firefox/.
> 
> You got it. Just en-US or all locales? I'm guessing all.

Yes, retornam is checking into some legacy on the original idea of /home/. He remembers some reason why /home/ was created and not redirected to start.mozilla.org or /firefox/ previously. From looking at the logs, the original idea for /home/ may not be relevant anymore. If we are unsure, redirecting to start.mozilla.org would be more safe.

Let's see what Raymond digs up.

	raymond [:retornam] (inactive)
	Comment 11 • 11 years ago

The firefox home product page was created for our IOS app Firefox Home. The product no longer exists so it is safe to redirect this to the /firefox/ page

	Chris More [:cmore] Reporter
	Comment 12 • 11 years ago

+1 to redirect to /firefox/. Better than a 404.

	[github robot]
	Comment 13 • 11 years ago

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/ae923faa5e31b2dcb38a9f63cf7abdc34508861c
Bug 845580 Redirect Firefox home

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/cbac170122c05edab768f593fe5628a2c2c2f98c
Merge pull request #958 from retornam/bug-845580-redirect-firefox-home

Bug 845580 Redirect Firefox home

	raymond [:retornam] (inactive)
	Comment 14 • 11 years ago

fixed on dev

curl -I "https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/home/"
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: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:20:07 GMT
Location: https://www-dev.allizom.org/firefox/
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: Keep-Alive

	raymond [:retornam] (inactive)
	Comment 15 • 11 years ago

fixed on prod   http://www.mozilla.org/home --> https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/