Redirect Request: VHA /healthbenefits redirects - 11/30 target

[DanielleThierryUSDSVA]

Instructions

• Requests must be submitted AT LEAST 2 weeks in advance. Some requests take a significant amount of time and coordination to implement, so start the process as soon as you know you will need one.
• This issue will be used from initial request through implementation to ensure all individuals working on this are notified of status updates. Please do not create multiple issues to track differnt steps.
• It is your responsibility to notify VA stakeholders as appropriate.

Type of request

• We are retiring or taking down a page and need to redirect the URL (complete redirect section)
• We are changing the URL of an existing page (complete redirect section)
• We need a custom vanity URL (complete vanity URL section)

Implementation date

When does this request need to be live: November 30, 2022 or before

Redirects

2 notes on these redirects:

• Some of these redirects are for directory levels (like /healthbenefits/access). We need the directory URL redirected, but the directory-level redirect should only redirect that page and not its child pages so we can redirect those child pages 1:1.
• All redirects need to work for all casing variations in all segments of the URLs. For example, https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/vadip/ also needs to redirect https://www.va.gov/HEALTHBENEFITS/vadip/, https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/VADIP/, and https://www.va.gov/HEALTHBENEFITS/VADIP/

Current URL	Redirect Destination or New URL
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/vadip/	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/dental-care/dental-insurance/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/	https://www.va.gov/health-care/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/mental_health_care.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/health-needs-conditions/mental-health/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/health_promotion.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/wellness-programs/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/kiosks.asp	https://www.va.gov/resources/how-to-check-in-with-your-smartphone-for-some-va-appointments/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/specialty_care_services.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/active_duty.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/eligibility/active-duty/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/preventative_care_services.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/wellness-programs/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/family_members.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/inpatient_care_services.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/cost-of-care/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/gateway/combat_vets.asp	https://www.va.gov/health-care/eligibility/active-duty/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/online/	https://www.va.gov/health-care/apply/application/introduction

Vanity URLs

Vanity URL	Landing page
requested URL	landing page URL

Link to campaign landing page request issue:

Process, Roles and Responsibilities

• Requesting team: Above information is provided
• Requesting team: All appropriate VA stakeholders are notified as appropriate
• IA: Request is vetted and documented and implementation plan is clear
• IA: Request is assigned to appropriate team for implementation
• Implementation team: Work is complete
• Implementation team: Validated in production
• Requesting team: Validates everything is correct in production and closes ticket

[DanielleThierryUSDSVA]

@mnorthuis Feel free to add any additional notes here!

[mnorthuis]

Danielle has critical notes above the table regarding how some of these redirects need to be done, so just wanted to call attention to those.

Something else to note, there are some redirects already in place for child pages of the above directories. Listing those out here, please verify that they still work once these new ones are in place.

These related redirects are already in place:

legacy URL	redirects to
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/vadip/index.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/dental-care/dental-insurance/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/index.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/cost-of-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/financial_assessment.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/cost-of-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/insurance.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/va-health-care-and-other-insurance/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/copays.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/copay-rates/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/copay_rates.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/copay-rates/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/make_a_payment.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/pay-copay-bill/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/debt.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/pay-copay-bill/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/disputes.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/pay-copay-bill/dispute-charges/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/cost/financialhardship.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/pay-copay-bill/financial-hardship/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/index.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/medical_benefits_package.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/geriatrics.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/long-term-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/home_health_care.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/long-term-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/seamless_care.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/where-you-go-for-care/
www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/prescriptions.asp	www.va.gov/health-care/refill-track-prescriptions/

[jilladams]

Does this still need review from Joni / Randi, or it's ready for PW to implement?

[jonichanux]

These are ready to go, @jilladams .

[chri5tia]

PR https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/devops/pull/12277

[chri5tia]

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/devops/pull/12277

[jilladams]

@chri5tia reopening. We have 3 redirects with unexpected behavior: the redirects were implemented in code in a way that seems logical, but actual end landing page has health-care/access inserted in the path, resulting in a 404 in prod. (That'll teach me to forego testing with a staging deploy for redirects.)

broken redirects

Current URL	Incorrect (live 404s)	Correction to make
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp	https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/ -- line 25	https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/active_duty.asp	https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/health-care/eligibility/active-duty/ -- line 86	https://www.va.gov/health-care/eligibility/active-duty/
https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/family_members.asp	https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/ -- line 94	https://www.va.gov/health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/

possible culprit?

spitballing, but does https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/devops/blob/master/ansible/deployment/config/revproxy-vagov/vars/redirects.yml#L17 maybe somehow have an impact here?

[chri5tia]

🐾 va.gov-cms: curl -sLIXGET https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp                                                 14:07
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:07:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: keep-alive
Location: health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
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HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:07:22 GMT
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https://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/access/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
should be
https://www.va.gov/health-care/about-va-health-benefits/

The redirect that @jilladams pointed out could be related but its backwards. (/healthbenefits/access/ is being interjected in front of instead of instead of).

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/$
    dest: /health-care/
    matcher: "~*"

Did I put something in the code here to concatenate instead of replace?

[dsasser]

The issue is of 'relative' redirects. Each of the non-functional redirects share the same trait: they are missing a forward slash preceding the dest:

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/active_duty.asp$
    dest: health-care/eligibility/active-duty/
    matcher: "~*"

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp$
    dest: health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
    matcher: "~*"

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/family_members.asp$
    dest: health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/
    matcher: "~*"

Without the preceding "/" results in a "relative redirect" by nginx.

With the preceding slash:

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/active_duty.asp$
    dest: /health-care/eligibility/active-duty/
    matcher: "~*"

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/ancillary_services.asp$
    dest: /health-care/about-va-health-benefits/
    matcher: "~*"

  - src: ^/healthbenefits/access/family_members.asp$
    dest: /health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/
    matcher: "~*"