From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 7 18: 5: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep13-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E212237B407 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hibernate.cryolabs.net ([213.132.151.88]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with SMTP id <20020508010458.KXLY13209.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@hibernate.cryolabs.net> for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:04:58 +0200 Received: (qmail 12540 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 03:04:57 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.cryolabs.net) (192.168.196.1) by hibernate.cryolabs.net with SMTP; 8 May 2002 03:04:57 +0200 Received: from cocaine.cryolabs.net (cocaine.cryolabs.net [192.168.196.5]) by ice.cryolabs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E261AA; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:04:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Links within the Handbook From: Wouter Van Hemel To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ceri Davies , doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20020507161357.GA15017@submonkey.net> <20020507164915.GA55559@submonkey.net> <200205071654.g47GsjtE018079@intruder.bmah.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 08 May 2002 03:04:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1020819889.203.224.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 18:54, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, 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). > > > > I think 3 is the closest to what we'll eventually need to do, but all three > > suck in different ways. > > In addition, #3 is the only one that isn't broken for printed output. I > have this dim recollection of someone spending cycles on the "relative > URLs vs. printed output" problem before, but I am not sure what > happened. > We could solve it temporary with a redirect page (meta tags, or header). Why do we want /FAQ and /handbook to exist, considering the trouble it causes? wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message