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The Spanish American War Centennial Website

By Patrick McSherry

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Let me explain why you are here...This is not where you were trying to go! I can explain (the full explanation is below).

But first, to go were you wanted to go, do this:. Go up to the URL at the top of your browser. Copy the last part of the URL (after "spanamwar.com/" - circled in the image below), and paste it into the search bar below. It should get you to the page for which you are looking!

Help with 404 error



The full explanation:

Here is the explanation for why this happened. Yahoo sold its website hosting service to a company called Turbify. Turbify required that the website be migrated to a new server. We had no choice, so we did it. Turbify grossly messed up the data migration and failed to map the backlinks! This meant that the backlinks now failed and led to a 404 error page! After fighting with Turbity for months as they claimed everything was OK...in spite of the website getting an error message about once every two minutes and Google sending us notes of complaint. Turbify never provided an explanation, or even admitted there was a problem in spite of all of the data forwarded to their customer service people. Eventually I gave up and switched to Bluehost. During the Bluehost migration process I was informed that Turbify had failed to properly map the backlinks in their migration and sadly nothing could be done to correct that problem.

Our only option was to come up with code that would redirect someone following one of the broken backlinks to this page so they would not go to a 404 error page. Hopefully people will be able to get to the page they need through this page.

Thanks, Turbify for forcing us to migrate, and then messing up the migration!



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