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Date:      Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:20:42 -0700
From:      bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, security-team@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Handbook URL 
Message-ID:  <200208012120.g71LKgsN003915@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3ctye14r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
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If memory serves me right, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> > I added a redirect /handbook -> /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
> > on www.freebsd.org.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> > Note: this redirect will only work on the main web site
> > and not on the mirror sites.
> 
> Could that be arranged somehow, with a symlink perhaps?

The reason that the compatability symlinks went away was that they broke
a lot of links *between* documents.  From the commit logs of www/en/
Makefile:

----------------------------
revision 1.84
date: 2002/06/27 19:55:40;  author: nik;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -21
Stop creating symlinks to the /FAQ and /handbook directories from the
actual directories under /doc.  This broke inter-document links if
you started at http://www.freebsd.org/{FAQ,handbook}, instead of the
longer .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/{faq,handbook}, and has caused a
steady stream of complaints to -doc.

Instead, have a static index.html in both those directories with a
http-equiv="refresh" that points people to the right place.

Adjust the build process to take account of this.
----------------------------

Could you maybe work this out with Nik first, or at least bring this up 
on doc@?

Thanks,

Bruce.



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