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Bug 160148

Summary:	Some pages make search engines loop indefinitely
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.contentmgt-inbox <phoenix.contentmgt-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Eclipse Webmaster

2006-10-08 08:11:12 EDT

Every day I need to manually kill our search indexer because it gets caught in an infinite loop either on the categories pages or on the articles pages:

http://www.eclipse.org/index.php/org/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/org/org/org/org/org/org/org/org/categories/org/categories/categories/categories/org/org/org/categories/org/categories/categories/rcp.php
http://www.eclipse.org/index.php/org/org/categories/org/org/categories/org/categories/categories/categories/categories/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/org/categories/org/org/categories/org/org/org/org/articles
http://www.eclipse.org/index.php/org/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/categories/org/categories/categories/categories/categories/org/org/categories/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/org/cate
http://www.eclipse.org/index.php/org/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/categories/org/categories/categories/categories/categories/org/org/categories/org/org/org/org/categories/categories/org/org/org/org/categories/categorie

The same thing happens with the articles section, so I'm wondering if there's something up with the form, ir with the "filter" boxes that makes it generate never-ending URLs from ../ things.

I'll investigate further to add more details.

D.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2006-10-10 08:41:17 EDT

Peeking in the database reveals there are 80408 indexed pages that contain "org/org" in the URL

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2006-10-11 12:26:54 EDT

I found the culprit.  On this page:
http://www.eclipse.org/org/councils/roadmap_v2_0/PC_v2_0/index.php

There is an incorrect link to:
http://www.eclipse.org/index.php/RestructureGenericServerSupportProposal

Which causes the home page to come up with a useless /RestructureGenericServerSupportProposal at the end of the URL.  The homepage then has a "More about Eclipse" link which is relative: org/, which then replaces index.php/RestructureGenericServerSupportProposal with index.php/org/.

The whole thing spirals out of control as index.php/org/ (the home page) has a relative link to "org/", becoming index.php/org/org.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

I propose we change the relative org/ link to an absolute /org/ on the home page, and we fix the broken link on the Councils roadmap page.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2006-10-17 02:06:53 EDT

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2007-10-10 11:42:27 EDT

Moving to Community/Website