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In your imgur, you see "LINK" will take you to "chess.ca/en/ws/old-chess-ca/". You've nicely pointed this out with red arrows. "/en/ws/old-chess-ca/" is NOT the
by BareNakedCoder 6y ago
In your imgur, you see "LINK" will take you to "chess.ca/en/ws/old-chess-ca/". You've nicely pointed this out with red arrows. "/en/ws/old-chess-ca/" is NOT the old website. It is a page on the new website. It has an explanation of the situation. Previously, this explanation page had the link to the old website (at http://old.chess.ca/ http://old.chess.ca/), but I removed that (English and French) this morning before requesting a review by Google. Even though these links are now gone, they failed my review.
- gus_massa 6y agoI thought it was weird to put the old site as a subdirectory of the new one, but I think it is possible with some trick in Apache or whatever you are using. It make more sense to use another subdomain, and as yuo noted in the sibling comment it may be what is causing the problem. I really don't know. Good luck. (How much info is in the old server? Is it possible to put the old server behind a proxy that rewrite all the pages and remove the malware or whatever is the problem? Perhaps remove all the links to external sites and to executable files or something like that. I'm 80% sure this is a bad idea, but perhaps it is possible with enough technical knowledge.)
- BareNakedCoder 6y agoMany ways to do it, but another subdomain was easiest. The two websites are on different hosts. There is still a lot of info on the old website. When we decided to go with an "emergency" rewrite of our website, instead of trying to cleanse Drupal, we rewrote only the core functions needed to run tournaments. To keep users from complaining, I kept old.chess.ca available. Now, they'll just have to wait. I do not want to risk anything that might provoke the Google monster into banishing the new website again.