[ros-general] Translating our web site - IMPORTANT

Ameen Ross a.ross at amdev.eu
Thu Apr 4 17:33:28 UTC 2013


Are you using the redirect module? I know only of that module that adds redirects for title updates, so as to prevent breaking the old URL. If that causes issues, like a circular redirect, there are already numerous issue reports and AFAICT a fix is around the corner.

Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org> wrote:

>It turns out, that Drupal automatically (!??!!?) adds this redirect
>when 
>title of the translated page is changed. This needs to be tested and if
>
>so, complained to the Drupal [module] developers, because this
>"feature" 
>is very bad.
>
>Best regards,
>Aleksey Bragin
>
>On 04.04.2013 13:30, Aleksey Bragin wrote:
>> Dear translators,
>> please DO NOT SET the url redirection in your translated pages
>(unless 
>> you was told so by Z98 or me).
>>
>> I repeat, DO NOT SET it at all. DO NOT try to fix the url by doing
>so, 
>> don't try to think you're smarter and can work around the different 
>> url problem by setting the redirects. Drupal 7 is not smarter alas, 
>> and doesn't detect circular references in all cases.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for understanding,
>> Aleksey Bragin
>
>
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