Links to event with the syntax of the old portal do not forward to the same element in the new portal

14435
Reporter: atalavan
Type: Bug
Summary: Links to event with the syntax of the old portal do not forward to the same element in the new portal
Resolution: WontFix
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-12-02 13:48:27.747
Updated: 2013-12-19 11:41:50.791
Resolved: 2013-12-19 11:40:57.483
        
        
Description: The old portal included links to events with the following syntax:

http://www.gbif.org/participation/training/events/training-event-details/?eventid=244

The new portal have the same events with the following one:

http://www.gbif.org/page/447

So call to those pages fails with a 'Page not found' message.

This is the unfortunate situation for any other page in the old portal BUT on top of that, in the case of the events we have requested participants to promote the international event through scripts such as:

http://www.gbif.es/Formacion_ppal_in.php

Those links are not working now. Neither the ones served by the RSS feed, which is still accessible, but the links are also failing:

http://imsgbif.gbif.org/CMS/GTEventsRSS.php

*Reporter*: Alberto González
*E-mail*: [mailto:atalavan]]]>
    

Author: atalavan
Comment: Cristina Villaverde (villaverde @ gbif.es) from GBIF Spain reported this issue by mail (2 Dec 2013).
Created: 2013-12-02 13:49:30.736
Updated: 2013-12-02 13:49:54.79

Author: kbraak@gbif.org
Created: 2013-12-19 11:40:57.514
Updated: 2013-12-19 11:40:57.514
        
[~cvizitiu@gbif.org] has mentioned making redirects/aliases for every old portal page is simply unmaintainable ( see http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-1405?focusedCommentId=16613&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16613 ). Therefore, I'm closing this issue as won't fix.

It might prove more sensible to migrate GBIF Spain to use the new URLs instead.