RTFD doesn't delete all files when a project is removed

[tiran]

A couple of months ago I removed my project $SPAM from RTFD. The URL

https://$SPAM.readthedocs.org/

shows an error page just like I expect. But

https://$SPAM.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

still has all pages and images. It seems like RTFD doesn't remove all files of a deleted project.

Christian

PS: I'd rather not post the true value of $SPAM because I don't want to draw attention to outdated docs.

[ericholscher]

This is an issue with me not wanting to break URLs for projects that go away. I would much prefer for people to include some kind of meta redirect on the docs so that the URLs don't break, and search engines move them over properly. This is something I would like to add to RTD itself, to make it easier too.

[yakky]

I'm also affected by this; I could not find any reference in the documentation on how to add such meta redirects.

[xiongchiamiov]

Would it also be a good idea to add some sort of warning banner telling users the page is outdated?

[tobias47n9e]

Has any progress been made for redirects or purging old pages? I also had to restructure my documentation, but Google now seems to rank the non-existing pages higher than the existing pages.

[ericholscher]

CLosing as dupe of #1408