I can't remember where the new vault is. I was hoping I could get to it from the main boost page www.boost.org . Could this be updated? I guess there's no simple way to move the stuff in the old vault into the new vault. I would really like to save that "old stuff". I just know I'll need that numeric to roman numeral converter as soon as its deleted. Robert Ramey
Robert Ramey wrote:
I can't remember where the new vault is. I was hoping I could get to it from the main boost page www.boost.org . Could this be updated?
Well I though I had updated it... But now I figured out why my change did not show up. There are both www.boost.org/index.htm and www.boost.org/index.html files, and SF only uses the index.html file :-( Anyway it's better now. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com - 102708583/icq
Rene Rivera wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
I can't remember where the new vault is. I was hoping I could get to it from the main boost page www.boost.org . Could this be updated?
Well I though I had updated it... But now I figured out why my change did not show up. There are both www.boost.org/index.htm and www.boost.org/index.html files
Why?! Shouldn't one be a redirect, at least? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
At 08:37 AM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
I can't remember where the new vault is. I was hoping I could get to it from the main boost page www.boost.org . Could this be updated?
Well I though I had updated it... But now I figured out why my change did not show up. There are both www.boost.org/index.htm and www.boost.org/index.html files
Why?! Shouldn't one be a redirect, at least?
I ran into this when we first moved the web site to SourceForge. Apparently www.boost.org is interpreted by Appache as a request for index.html only. If not found, it doesn't try index.htm. In diagnosing the problem, I probably just copied index.htm to index.html and forgot about it when the Boost URL started to respond properly. Aleksey perhaps when through the same process with the release he managed. The fix could be just to retire index.htm in favor of index.html. That would apparently lose the history, but it could always be view via index.htm in the attic. Should I add index.html and delete index.htm? --Beman
Beman Dawes wrote:
At 08:37 AM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
I can't remember where the new vault is. I was hoping I could get to it from the main boost page www.boost.org . Could this be updated?
Well I though I had updated it... But now I figured out why my change did not show up. There are both www.boost.org/index.htm and www.boost.org/index.html files
Why?! Shouldn't one be a redirect, at least?
I ran into this when we first moved the web site to SourceForge. Apparently www.boost.org is interpreted by Appache as a request for index.html only. If not found, it doesn't try index.htm. In diagnosing the problem, I probably just copied index.htm to index.html and forgot about it when the Boost URL started to respond properly. Aleksey perhaps when through the same process with the release he managed.
The fix could be just to retire index.htm in favor of index.html. That would apparently lose the history, but it could always be view via index.htm in the attic.
Should I add index.html and delete index.htm?
I'll ask again: is there some reason that index.html isn't just a redirect to index.htm? That would seem to be the simplest solution. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
At 05:06 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
Should I add index.html and delete index.htm?
I'll ask again: is there some reason that index.html isn't just a redirect to index.htm? That would seem to be the simplest solution.
IIRC, I tried that and it wasn't a useful solution. I've forgotten if it totally didn't work or just had performance problems. I have a vague recollection of very slow redirection. For reasons I don't understand, Appache seems to treat the root directory differently, and that may affect both functionality and performance. --Beman
Beman Dawes wrote:
At 05:06 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
Should I add index.html and delete index.htm?
I'll ask again: is there some reason that index.html isn't just a redirect to index.htm? That would seem to be the simplest solution.
IIRC, I tried that and it wasn't a useful solution. I've forgotten if it totally didn't work or just had performance problems. I have a vague recollection of very slow redirection. For reasons I don't understand, Appache seems to treat the root directory differently, and that may affect both functionality and performance.
There are apache directives you can put in the .htaccess that will fix this problem, too, without any noticeable redirection delay. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html For example. It may be possible to use less-powerful means; I just happen to know about this one. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
At 06:57 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
There are apache directives you can put in the .htaccess that will fix this problem, too, without any noticeable redirection delay.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
For example. It may be possible to use less-powerful means; I just happen to know about this one.
That should work. Why don't you try it, since you already know about it:-) --Beman
Beman Dawes wrote:
At 06:57 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
There are apache directives you can put in the .htaccess that will fix this problem, too, without any noticeable redirection delay.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
For example. It may be possible to use less-powerful means; I just happen to know about this one.
That should work. Why don't you try it, since you already know about it:-)
Actually, here's the right answer: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm Done. No more maintenance hassles. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
At 08:29 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
At 06:57 PM 1/12/2005, David Abrahams wrote:
There are apache directives you can put in the .htaccess that will fix this problem, too, without any noticeable redirection delay.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
For example. It may be possible to use less-powerful means; I just happen to know about this one.
That should work. Why don't you try it, since you already know about it:-)
Actually, here's the right answer:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
Done. No more maintenance hassles.
Thanks! --Beman
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