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

[Georg C. F. Greve]

followup with fullquote for Nic Ferrier who did changes on the pages.

 || On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:25:07 +0100
 || John Paul Wallington <address@hidden> wrote: 

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

 jpw> 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?

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Georg C. F. Greve                           <address@hidden>
Brave GNU World                            (http://brave-gnu-world.org)
Free Software Foundation Europe              (http://www.fsfeurope.org)

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