bug#26302: Deploying the i18n’d web site

[Christopher Baines]

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> Sorry, I forgot to address the patch tracker.  I wrote some hours ago:
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 07:31:04PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > Hi Florian,
>> >
>> > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>> >
>> > > +   (redirect "/news/porting-guix-and-guixsd.html" 
>> > > "/$lang/blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd")
>> >
>> > Does that mean that /blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd (without /LANG)
>> > will _not_ redirect to /LANG/blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd?
>> >
>> > It’s important that all the current URL, without /LANG, remain valid.
>>
>> With the new test VM, not all is working.
>>
>> /news/porting-guix-and-guixsd.html fails (code 404).
>>
>> /blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd fails (code 404).
>>
>> /blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd fails (404).
>>
>> But /blog/2015/porting-guix-and-guixsd/ works fine.
>>
>> Well this is difficult to figure out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Florian
>
> An update:
>
> The attached patch for berlin serves more but not all URLs
> properly when testing on a VM.
>
> I found one problem; the nginx locations for redirecting old URLs can
> be given a higher priority via specifying = before the location path.
>
> I am sorry for neglecting this for so long until Christopher Baines
> offered to help a few days ago.  Now I too started investigating
> myself again.

Thanks for your continued time working on this Florian. I've made a
little bit of progress now, I've taken the wip-i18n branch, applied the
patch attached to this email and deployed that at [1].

1: http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/

This isn't a close test of the configuration for berlin, but might come
in useful when testing the NGinx configuration.

Thanks,

Chris

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