making up-to-date server guide easier to find

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Tue Nov 27 01:28:57 UTC 2007


A google search for "ubuntu server guide" has this as the top hit:

 http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html

It does not indicate a version, does not link to other versions and I
haven't figured out what version it is, but it is old.  Any sleuths
out there?

The second google hit is
 https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html

which is just a little bit better, getting folks up to version 6.06,
but not beyond.

Shouldn't these two redirect to something closer to
 https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/

(which needs a 2007 copyright....)

I gather that part of the problem is that the URL changed from
"serverguide" to "server" at some point, and the former is probably
favored by google's heuristics.

Perhaps a google site map would help:
 https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps

Speaking of URLs, why is that "/C" in there?  It just seems to get in
the way, lengthen the URL a bit, and lead to unproductive wondering
about whether "/A", "/D" "/C++" or "/BCPL" would would be even better
:-)

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/




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