[boost] Re: questions re the Vault

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-12 17:06:01

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.

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Dave Abrahams
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