DOI URL has Changed how do i change the URL on Crossref - CRITICAL

I have a Journal that was on OJS-2.4.3 the DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4505 is currently pointing to URL:- http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/view/4505.
I have migrated this journal to a ne server and using OJS-2.4.7.1. The new server has multiple copies of OJS for each journal on the server.
The new URL for the DOI has changed to http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/4505.

I need to know what I have to do to change all of the DOI’s URL’s for this journal so the DOI’s are pointing to the correct URL.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Edward

Hi @EdwardDavid,

The best solution is to keep your URLs unchanged – it’s not just DOIs but other links into the journal e.g. Google Scholar that will be affected. OJS itself hasn’t changed its URL format, so I suspect you previously had a rewrite configuration in place but removed it during the upgrade. Check to see if your previous version had a .htaccess file in place.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @asmecher,
No .htaccess file for this journal.
There was an index.html file in /var/www.
It had:-

The only way to keep the original URL’s would be to have /var/www/arctic/arctic.
Then this one would be set up differently then all the other journals that are being migrated to the new servers.
For each journal I have Apache pointing to the correct directory in this journal it would be pointed to /var/www/arctic and not pointed to /var/www.

Thanks,
Edward

Hi @EdwardDavid,

Sorry, I misread the URLs in your previous post.

I still think the best solution would be to keep the URLs the same despite the change in configuration. mod_rewrite is the best tool for this – though unfortunately I won’t be able to help with that configuration, as it’s an Apache configuration issue (and more than a little arcane). There are several threads with suggested configurations here and in the old forum.

Changing the URLs will have considerable impact outside of just CrossRef and should be avoided if at all possible.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team