From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 11 5:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D51937C119; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8C56B9B2A; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:27:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:27:54 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20532: Broken link on the web page. Message-ID: <20000811132754.C6854@pavilion.net> References: <200008111140.EAA60270@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000811132225.E254@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000811132225.E254@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:22:25PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > Yes, I should have added, "maybe on _all_ mirrors" :) > > I'm not sure how to fix this because if you hold the cursor over the > link at www.freebsd.org it shows, in the status bar, the URL > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html . I guess there is a > symlink somewhere on www.freebsd.org. > Taking a look at Freefall it appears that there's a local configuration in the httpd.conf: httpd.conf:Redirect /handbook/current.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT httpd.conf:Redirect /handbook/stable.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE There's no RCS file so I don't know who, when or why the change was made, but I'd suggest that it is wrong, and that the documentation should do the right thing. This kind of configuration isn't going to be mirrored by the web mirror sites. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message