moved links from servicestack.net to mono.servicestack.net

[VirtueMe]

I would really liked if servicestack.net used url rewrite to redirect to mono.servicestack.net when referenced by github or stackoverflow

<rules>
  <rule name="RedirectToMono" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(linksremovedpattern)" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTP_REFERER}" pattern="http://stackoverflow.com/(.*)" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://mono.servicestack.net/{R:1}" />
  </rule>
</rules>

[mythz]

ok great thx for the updating the links, but this rewrite rule is a temporary bandaid that firstly prohibits any links to the new website, includes some weird behavior that's dependent on the source of the link that you're asking to be added on a new AWS instance that has nothing to do with the old website that will just end up breaking eventually.

The old www. links already redirect. So it's just links starting with http://servicestack.net which need changing, that can easily be updated in GitHub by public wiki edits or pull-requests, and proposed for moderation in StackOverflow.

[VirtueMe]

I see. I struggled with some code yesterday and all references to documentation or sample gave me a 404. The frustration was high last nigh as you hopefully understand.

I know all about the PITA keeping links up to date so I will not argue against the introduction of weird behavior on a site when your url rewrite rules goes bananas. We actually manually manage over 4000 different link redirects as we moved/merged over 20 domains to be only 10 domains but maintaining the redirects for the old links that not exists any more. On a different solution we have 1 code-base on a single server for 5 domanis, handling mappings with 10 rewrite rules. This amount of complexity introduced by the rules are the most I think is manageable before it's not possible to maintain them.