[Bravegw-web] Re: what happened to Brave GNU World?

[John Paul Wallington]

The Brave GNU World web pages are borked; the webserver redirects to
(seemingly) spurious urls containing "/software/bravegw/" then barfs
with 404 errors.

Derek Chen-Becker wrote:

> Corey Goldberg wrote:
> > does anyone know what happened to Brave GNU World??
> > 
> > I received a ticket that our front page link to
> > "http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.en.html"; is
> > broken (which it is).
> > 
> > I just did a fresh checkout of the www tree and I do not have a
> > /brave-gnu-world directory.  Also, the 404 I get when trying that
> > link says "The requested URL
> > /software/bravegw/brave-gnu-world.en.html was not found on this
> > server."  I am not sure how this redirect is done, but there is no
> > /software/bravegw directory anyways.  I do have a /bravegw (directly
> > under www) which is empty.
> > 
> > all of the links I get from a site search come up with 404's.. also
> > the URL http://brave-gnu-world.org which points to
> > /software/bravegw// is dead.
> > 
> > anyone know what happened or how to fix??
> > 
> > -Corey
> > 
> 
> It might be a symlink issue. I can check out:
> 
> cvs -d ":ext:address@hidden:/webcvs/bravegw" bravegw
> 
> There's a lot of stuff there:
> 
> address@hidden bravegw]$ ls brave-gnu-world*en*
> brave-gnu-world-1999.en.html  brave-gnu-world-2002.en.html
> brave-gnu-world-2000.en.html  brave-gnu-world-2003.en.html
> brave-gnu-world-2001.en.html
> address@hidden bravegw]$
> 
> Looking at .symlinks:
> 
> brave-gnu-world-2003.en.html brave-gnu-world.en.html
> 
> It looks like the link didn't happen. I've been getting a lot of tickets 
> about broken symlinks, is this something that's being worked on?