Purpose: Motivation is that we want to maintain SEO through this transition. We want people who find our content on Google Scholar or have saved links (on their own site or bookmarks) to continue for some period of time after go-live date.
Background:
- https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/site-move-with-url-changes
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Redirections#keeping_links_alive
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Redirections#apache
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status#redirection_messages