mezzanine: [BUG] "Fixed" URLs are still broken, which can harm your Google ranking.

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing Issues
  • This is related to, but not the same as, issue #2022
  • This is related to, but not the same as, the issue of broken links on https://pypi.org/project/Mezzanine/ which I reported over e-mail April 10, 2022 since there was no link to this repo there.

Current Behavior

• The readme was changed to use the github page to replace the domain, but sub-urls such as are still broken.
  • When you click a link in the readme, a GitHub 404 page appears.
  • It looks bad for the project.
  • If the links are erased from the readme, the readme is less useful. Where to find the information from the broken links is unclear.
• When you click any of several Google results (such as https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/docs/packages.html) about how to use mezzanine, a GitHub 404 page appears.
  • Google tracks this type of thing, so it will harm the ranking of your domain.

Expected Behavior

• Get the helpful information from the search result of readme somehow.
• Make Google links work to prevent the domain from being downranked.

I didn’t know where the official repo was so I mentioned over e-mail that https://pypi.org/project/Mezzanine/ had bad links. That was fixed since then. However, the following from my e-mail still remains true regarding the “Current Behavior” above:

. . . https://jupo.org/ [says] ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID.

Do you need hosting? I can probably host this for free on one of my VPSs if you think the site won’t be overloaded with traffic, and throw in a domain. I can also help with configuring the domain properly such as using a free cert from https://letsencrypt.org/

I hope this helps.

I would like the site back not just so I can use it but also so I can use a tool that has a community of support rather than appearing abandoned. I’m trying to fix the old ninja-ide website and want to make it work with the latest mezzanine. If people don’t feel that mezzanine is supported, fewer people will choose it, and therefore fewer people will report issues or submit pull requests. Therefore, even if you provide a URL to me, the site not existing is still a problem.

Plus, I actually want to be able to learn how to do the things to which the readme (used to) link, not just have the links deleted.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Click any link in the readme or via a search engine that have a “/” after the main site.
2. A 404 error is displayed (and in the case of search results, the error is reported to the search engine for any search engine that uses click tracking such as Google). In the readme, the main site is now the repo, but on Google, the domain redirects to the repo, yielding the same result. The bad cert on jupo.org may also downrank the domain.

Environment

- Operating System: N/A
- Python version: N/A
- Django version: N/A
- Database engine and version: N/A
- Mezzanine version: N/A

Anything else?

Examples of search engine results where clicking links on the first page will downrank your domain:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=mezzanine+5+django&sxsrf=APq-WBu5X0Un-MYsy_EQlBQuYncA5Q0_ng%3A1650717176415&ei=-PFjYvr4GK-vggfH1J2gAw&ved=0ahUKEwj61LLXmKr3AhWvl-AKHUdqBzQQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=mezzanine+5+django&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABOgcIABBHELADOgQIIxAnOgYIABAWEB46BQgAEIYDOgUIIRCrAkoECEEYAEoECEYYAFCoHVjyMmC0NGgEcAF4AIABZ4gB_QWSAQM4LjGYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz
• https://www.bing.com/search?q=mezzanine 5 documentation&qs=n&form=QBRE&=%25eManage Your Search History%25E&sp=-1&pq=mezzanine 5 documentation&sc=4-25&sk=&cvid=417941BF500F49FAAB5D3C1E067DD178

Example issue(s) containing links that are now bad, which may lead to issues recurring since people can’t find the solution there anymore:

• #1991

Example issue(s) that link to jupo.org which has a bad cert:

• #268
• and every other issue with stephenmcd’s signature

Example page(s) that have links to “live demo” that no longer exist (I actually don’t know where to find any Mezzanine 5 instance):

• https://github.com/stephenmcd/cartridge

I can’t find any documentation on how to set up a mezzanine 5 site other than a page somewhere that said it is now setup the same way as a DJANGO site, which is unclear, because mezzanine isn’t DJANGO, so I know steps will differ, but which steps and how? The release’s “docs” folder just has rst files which are unformatted and therefore the documents’ structure is more difficult to follow visually without a Restructured Text viewer, and I can’t click links to other files or have a table of contents even if I get such a viewer.