301 redirects and google sites
I’d forgotten I’d tried to set this up once, but I got an update notification today from https://code.google.com/p/google-sites-issues/issues/detail?id=73. The issue is that google sites doesn’t support 301 redirects. How does that effect us? What it means is if you’re porting an existing web site to google sites, you’re about guaranteed to have things break. If anyone’s linked to an index.html page of yours, or default.htm, you’re stuck with a 404 report forever. You can’t even load a blank page with an embedded redirect because google sites changes the document type so your browser won’t read it correctly. ...