From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jan 18 7:17:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9735E37B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEFA43F3F for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 18Zuj0-00020T-00; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:17:34 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:17:34 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Michael Lucas Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redirections on Web site? Message-ID: <20030118151734.GA7664@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Michael Lucas , doc@freebsd.org References: <20030118091537.A27473@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030118091537.A27473@blackhelicopters.org> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:15:37AM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > Folks, > > I'm polishing up the press release for 5.0, and have hit a bit of a > snag. > > The general consensus is that for information on getting FreeBSD, it > would be best to point at a link like > > www.freebsd.org/vendors.html > > For us, the correct link is > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html. > > The link needs to be spelled out, as press releases are not hypertext. > (We present them in hypertext, but they won't be distributed in > hypertext.) We can't possibly put that correct link in; it's just not > human-readable or human-memorable. > > It occurs to me that the simplest way to do this is with a > redirect, which leads me to two questions: > > a) Do we allow redirects on the Web site? www/en/FAQ/index.html > b) If we do, who knows how to do them? www/en/FAQ/index.html Ceri -- By the All-Father, I shall avenge the reckoning of my beards! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message