Broken Documentation Links
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I merged a pull request on platform to update documentation links to URLs that had previously worked.
The URL the previously worked
https://stjude.cloud/docs/guides/glossary/data-access-unit/#childhood-cancer-survivor-study-ccss
now should be
https://stjude.cloud/docs/glossary/#childhood-cancer-survivor-study-ccss.
Platform is updated again, but for future changes, is there a way we can make old links redirect to new locations so every site that links to documentation doesn't immediately have broken links?
Is this the right approach, or should it be part of Arthur's constant scanning where we can catch the invalid links and fix them? My concern would be that we are left with a web of redirects. I do admit, it was bad timing in this particular instance
Ideally we go through some sort of deprecation cycle to give us time to update relevant platforms/portals/sites/etc and then remove the redirect.
Closing because Arthur now checks for broken links regularly.
This has occurred again. Links on the data browser were leading to 404 pages, but has recently been fixed (https://github.com/stjude/sjcloud-platform/pull/161). Affected links were updated here on commit 38ae319.
I think this question is still relevant:
[...] is there a way we can make old links redirect to new locations so every site that links to documentation doesn't immediately have broken links?
Closing because Arthur now checks for broken links regularly.
@acchiao Is this live?