From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 25 14:16:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1031637B423; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA29948; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:16:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA02216; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:12:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:12:24 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mirrors confused by "redirect" directives on www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20010425231224.A2149@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> Reply-To: "Jose M. Alcaide" , doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AE61603.2060837C@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE61603.2060837C@we.lc.ehu.es>; from jose@we.lc.ehu.es on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:10:43AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to freebsd-doc] Hi Jose, the redirects on www.freebsd.org are optional. Every link on a FreeBSD web site should work. You don't need to setup redirects or aliases in your httpd server configuration. If you get a "page not found" error, then you found a bug in the FreeBSD documentation, and the bug should be fixed ASAP. -Wolfram On 2001-04-25 02:10:43 +0200, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > I have just found that there are pages of the handbook which are > not found on the WWW mirrors. For example, if you go to > > http://www.uk.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > and click on "Why build a custom kernel?", which is linked to > > http://www.uk.freebsd.org/handbook/x2621.html > > you'll get a "not found" error. Try other mirrors and you will see > the same problem. However, this works on www.freebsd.org because > its Apache configuration uses "Redirect" directives such as > this: > > Redirect permanent /handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook > > and [I don't know why] x2621.html does exist in the directory > redirected to, but it does not exist in /handbook. Obviously, this > setup of www.freebsd.org confuses the mirrors, which are then obligated > to use the same "redirect" directives in order to work properly. > > I think that there are only two solutions for this problem: > > 1. Reorganize www.freebsd.org in order to make the "redirect" > directives unnecesary. > 2. State clearly in http://www3.es.freebsd.org/internal/mirror.html > what "redirect" directives are needed. > > Cheers, > -- JMA > ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** > ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message