From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 11 6: 2:39 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 720C337C101; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3B8819B2A; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:02:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:02:34 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Nik Clayton Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20532: Broken link on the web page. Message-ID: <20000811140234.E6854@pavilion.net> References: <200008111140.EAA60270@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000811132225.E254@parish> <20000811123227.A995@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000811123227.A995@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:32:27PM +0000 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 12:32:27PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > 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. > > No, it's a redirect in the Apache config file. An eager committer needs > to think about bringing that stuff in to CVS, and possible producing a > 'web site mirror' port, that can set up a FreeBSD mirror with the minimum > effort. You argued to me that using Apache specific functionality was a mistake because not all mirrors are running apache. Surely these redirects shouldn't exist, and the internal links in the documentation should be changed. In addition a coupld of, sorry these links have changed., pages should be introduced. IMO. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message