Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:28:19 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Links within the Handbook Message-ID: <20020515212819.GA2665@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20020509075553.B83030@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> <20020509075553.B83030@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:55:53AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:49:15PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 1) Make symlinks for all the books and articles like we do now for the > > FAQ and handbook (this really sucks); > > > > 2) Get wosch to redirect /FAQ and /handbook in httpd.conf instead of using > > symlinks, and expect everyone running a mirror to do the same (wooh, that > > bites); > > > > 3) Change all of these ulinks so that they're absolute and not relative, > > and then head back into doc/en_US..., and expect translators to fix > > this themselves when they do a translation (ouch). > > We can't do (3). That will break local installations of the > documentation that have been installed in a 'non-standard' place. > > I don't really like (1). > > I wonder whether, instead of symlinking FAQ/ and handbook/, we could > just install index.html files that have the necessary META headers to > redirect the user to ../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/... as necessary? > > That should do the right thing, and it should work irrespective of the > web server configuration. Agreed. I'm working on it, although it may prove too much for me (I expect to need help on the Makefile stuff). Watch this space (on the other hand, if someone wants to come up with something first, then by all means...). Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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