Wayback Machine and 301 redirects

As you might know: the wayback machine from archive.org saves snapshots of websites. It does this automatically or can be forced to do so. However. If you ever had a 301 redirect on your site you are very much doomed.

Like browsers also the wayback-machine caches the redirect and does not continue...

By Ole Albers

Published on November 15, 2016, 12:00 am

Category: others

e snapshots from your sites. Even if you enter your url into the wayback-machine, you still will be redirected.

You can however force it to ignore the cache by manually store your site again:

https://web.archive.org/save/[YOURSITE]

for example:

https://web.archive.org/save/http://blathering.de

Et voílà: Everything works nice from now on.

 

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