Astute observers may have noticed that “hierarchy URLs” changed between WebLearn 10 and WebLearn 11.
In WebLearn 10, the URL of the Faculty of History was
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/history
in WebLearn 11, this was changed (for technical reasons) to
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/:humdiv:history
However, WebLearn 10 also supported URLs of this format
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/humdiv/history
indeed, it was this style of URL that was indexed by Google. In addition, some departments use this style of URLs on their website to link to specific areas within WebLearn.
In order to combat this problem, we have recently added some logic to redirect this style of URL to the new WebLearn 11 equivalent.
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