Re: Zapping the old FAQ

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> How shall we proceed in removing the old FAQ?  Remove the link and
>> truncate faq.html to only include a reference to the F-O-M and a link
>> to the new location of the Bug Reporting Instructions?
> Your call since you know more about this than I do :-)

Okay, I'll take care of that today and tomorrow. ;-)  Sorry for the delay!


> Is there any way have a reference to faq.html automatically redirect
> into the FOM server?  If so how maintainable is that kind of stuff?

Yes, that one's quite easy, all we have to add is something like
  Redirect /faq.html http://gcc.gnu.org/where/is/the/FOM
to httpd.conf and restart the web server.

Alas, there is a problem: We have had faq.html#bugreport (as well as a
couple of dozen others, but #bugreport is the only important one, though
it would be nice to properly forward all such #references), which needs
to be redirected to a different page than the FAQ per se.

And I believe that the #part of a URL is evaluated by the web client, not
the server, so there seems to be no way we can handle that. Indeed I just
tested this with a server of mine and failed to find a solution. :-(

> We certainly need something to respond to a request for faq.html :-)  The
> only question in my mind is can we automatically redirect that kind of
> request into FOM, or do we have to put up a trivial page with a link to the
> FOM server?

I'm afraid we need to have a trivial page with a link to the bug reporting
instructions on the one and a link to the FOM server on the other hand.

Do you agree?

Gerald
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