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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:14:23 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <jim@jmock.com>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/20532: Broken link on the web page.
Message-ID:  <20000811111423.B4254@luna.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000811140234.E6854@pavilion.net>; from joe@pavilion.net on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:02:34PM %2B0100
References:  <200008111140.EAA60270@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000811132225.E254@parish> <20000811123227.A995@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000811140234.E6854@pavilion.net>

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 at 14:02:34 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 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.

Are you volunteering?  :-)

- jim

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