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by securitypro
Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:15 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Canonical Tag
Replies: 7
Views: 6225

Re: Canonical Tag

Were you adding the <link rel... tag to the masterpage or individual topics? I can understand topics stripping out the code, but I would hope the masterpage would copy the code across as is.


I was adding to individual topics which got stripped out. Sounds like a good idea to try. How do you add ...
by securitypro
Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:42 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Canonical Tag
Replies: 7
Views: 6225

Re: Canonical Tag

Anyone have an answer?

Does Flare offer Canonical support? When I handcoded Canonical tags into the output, they weren't published to the web.
by securitypro
Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:29 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Renaming files and directories - redirects
Replies: 1
Views: 1280

Renaming files and directories - redirects

Is there a way to ensure that if directory names and file names are changed in MadCap Flare, that the redirects are 301 redirect?

Specifically, if a file name is changed, within the Docs I can use the “Update Links”, but what happens if someone clicks on a link to the old link?


1. Does the ...
by securitypro
Sun Nov 20, 2016 1:30 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Changing URLs - 301 redirect?
Replies: 0
Views: 1084

Changing URLs - 301 redirect?

If I rename a file or directory in my web output, and click on "Update Links" what is redirected:

1. Is there a way to create a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL? Specifically, I'm concerned about external links to articles in my help file
Is that from Flare or our web team? (or doc is ...
by securitypro
Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:37 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Canonical Tag
Replies: 7
Views: 6225

Canonical Tag

I inputted a Canonical HTML tag within the <header> tag of each page's HTML

For example:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.domain.com/Content/introducing-company/global-web-site.htm" />


When I build the online output/web help, the Canonical tag does not appear in the generated output.

I ...