Invalid redirect in elastic.co/blog causes links to lead to 404

Meta Elastic
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Hi Elastic,

This is a page I've encountered while browsing your blog posts.

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To reproduce:

  1. Go to https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-plugin-types

  2. Click any internal link to other elastic/found blog article, e.g.

    Elasticsearch Internals: An Overview
    Do notice the trailing slash

  3. GET /blog/found-writing-a-plugin/ results in 302 Moved Temporarily to blog/found-writing-a-plugin (no leading and no trailing slashes).

The browser interprets this as a relative path to be added to the current path, i.e. https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-writing-a-plugin/blog/found-writing-a-plugin

I saw this only on found blog posts. Probably this is a migration issue.

To fix I think you need to change the nginx rewrite rule to include the leading slash. Or at very least drop the trailing slash from the links in the posts.

Cheers,
Igor

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Thanks, I will make our content team aware of this!

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This is now fixed, thanks again!