Explore if we can redirect the existing docs to the new ones when we delete them

[palewire]

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[gordonje]

@palewire I'm not sure this is possible, based on this ticket which lead me to the this currently open one.

Removing old projects (and old versions of projects) seems like a feature many readthedocs users are requesting, and it seems like the readthedocs maintainers would prefer to allow their users to put projects into a disabled state and provide re-direct info (see this comment). Not yet implemented, though.

[palewire]

Thanks for doing this research. I wonder if we could simply insert an old-school HTML redirect tag into the page?

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://thetudors.example.com/'" />    

[gordonje]

It's definitely not ideal. There's a weird flash for readers and their browser's back button will break. For these reasons, this approach is discouraged by, among others, the W3C.

But the only alternative I can think of is replacing all the content on each page with a link to the master docs and message that says "Go here". Not sure if that's better.

If we are going this route, we can use the rst meta directive. Basically, we'll need to add this to each page of our current docs:

.. meta::
   :http-equiv=refresh: 0;URL='http://django-calaccess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/'