It's not just google, we also point users to the docs in forums, on user
list etc. So, these links should never be broken.
We put the javadocs, under "latest" for example
/releases/latest/javadoc/index.html, so the link always stays current. Can
we do something similar for the user guide as well?



On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:28 PM Kirk Lund <kl...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> The old URLs should probably redirect to the greatest version number then,
> right?
>
> Either way, we have broken URLs showing up at the top of our google
> searches. There must be a way of telling Google to flush these out or
> otherwise fix them.
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Michael Stolz <mst...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>
> > On further inspection, this is due to the versioning that was added in
> > /docs/guide.
> > There is now a /docs/guide/10 and a /docs/guide/11 each of which
> contains a
> > "configuring" folder a "tools_modules" folder, etc.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Stolz
> > Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Manager
> > Mobile: +1-631-835-4771 <(631)%20835-4771>
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > If I google for something like "apache geode pulse Log-File-Location"
> > then
> > > the top few search results are broken. Is this expected or temporary?
> > >
> > > https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/configuring/running/
> > > running_the_locator.html
> > >
> > > Not Found
> > > The requested URL /docs/guide/configuring/running/running_the_locator.
> > html
> > > was not found on this server.
> > >
> > > https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/configuring/running/
> > > running_the_cacheserver.html
> > >
> > > Not Found
> > > The requested URL
> > > /docs/guide/configuring/running/running_the_cacheserver.html was not
> > found
> > > on this server.
> > >
> > > https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/tools_modules/gfsh/
> > > configuring_gfsh.html
> > >
> > > Not Found
> > > The requested URL /docs/guide/tools_modules/gfsh/configuring_gfsh.html
> > was
> > > not found on this server.
> > >
> > > <next one is broken too...>
> > >
> >
>

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