Re: [htmlxref.cnf] Please update link to the Groff manual

[Thérèse Godefroy]

Le 06/10/2023 à 23:14, G. Branden Robinson a écrit :
[...]
> At 2023-10-06T10:31:55+0200, Thérèse Godefroy wrote:
> > There are other ways to redirect the html_node directory without any
> > help from sysadmins or webmasters.
> >
> > * Create an .htaccess file, for example in the manual directory:
> >
> >      RedirectMatch "html_node((/.*)?)$"
> > /software/groff/manual/groff.html.node$1
> >
> > The URL is redirected to something like this:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/*.html
[...]
> Thanks a lot for these pointers, Thérèse.  It has been probably 15 years
> since I messed with an .htaccess file.  I started my career in web
> development for e-commerce, was traumatized by an utterly horrible
> language called PHP (3.x!), saw that the exciting new thing was
> _another_ utterly horrible language called Javascript,[1] and ran as
> fast as I could into the warm embrace of systems programming.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
> [1] ECMA has made Javascript much less horrible.  But for me, the
>      language will always carry the shame of its origins.

I added a RedirectMatch directive similar to the one above to the
site-wide .htaccess. Now the html_node URLs work.

Best,
Thérèse