Re: GNUstep links in Dead-tree form...

[Alex Perez]

Manuel,
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:05:57 -0800 Alex Perez <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >| In Stephen Kochan's new and excellent Objective-C book, there are a few  
>  >| URL's printed in it which are no longer valid, presumably due to the  
>  >| recent site redesign. I'd like to propose that we set up permanent  
>  >| server-side redirects to the new locations of the documents he links  
>  >| to, as these obviously can't be updated.
>  >| 
>  >| 1) In the Resources section, on page 535, there's a link to  
>  >| http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/base/Base.html ... this  
>  >| has been changed to  
>  >| http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/ 
>  >| Reference/Base.html
>  >| 
>  >| 2) On page 536, there is a link to  
>  >| http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/manual_toc.html ...which  
>  >| has (presumably) been moved to  
>  >| http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/ 
>  >| ProgrammingManual/manual_toc.html
>  >| 
>  >| Can the server admin please set up permanent redirects for these two  
>  >| URLs? It would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> You can do it by creating a missingdoc.php page in the document root and 
> handling those cases in it.
> missingdoc.php is the 404 error page.

See below...we've got a 404 on a 404 :) 
Not Found
The requested URL /missingdoc.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an 
ErrorDocument to handle the request. 

Also, I really think the most elegant solution would be to add a permanent 
server redirect to the httpd.conf file, for these two URLs only. They are 
special cases. An Alias might be more appropriate in the second case, 
however, since the /resources/documentation directory still exists.

An httpd.conf line like "Redirect permanent /resources/documentation/base 
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference"; 
should work for the first case.

Can we make sure the missing 404 gets fixed?

Cheers,
Alex Perez