bug#26302: Deploying the i18n’d web site

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Find attached a desperate patch for guix-maintenance that works around
all listed issues, perhaps not in a nice way.

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:48:43PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> With what I currently have
> redirection explodes
> 
> http://guix.gnu.org/manual/html_node/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/en/html_node
> 
> !! I think this happened too back then.  I have not investigated this yet.
>

This is fixed by redirecting not to relative paths,

(redirect "/manual/html_node/Substitutes.html" 
"../en/html_node/Substitutes.html")

but to absolute paths

(redirect "/manual/html_node/Substitutes.html" 
"/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html")

I think this issue existed before any of my i18n changes.


> Previously when visiting
> 
> http://guix.gnu.org/graphics
> 
> then nginx too looked up the index file
> 
> http://guix.gnu.org/graphics/index.html
> 
> This broke.  “rewrite (.*)/$ $1/index.html;” had not fixed it.
> 
> !! I do not know what to do about it.


The patch introduces a long list of explicit redirects for all URLs
not ending in a slash (except for <http://guix.gnu.org/packages/…>
URLs, they are too many).  This is an unmaintainable solution if we
want to keep using URLs not ending in a slash.  If we don’t want that,
then if you agree all is ready, please deploy the i18n’d site by
applying this patch to guix-maintenance and shortly thereafter
merge/rebase the guix-artworks wip-i18n branch (shortly because
redirects won’t work in the meantime).

Regards,
Florian

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