Re: [Firebird-website] Wrong Firebird 2.1 Language Reference Update published

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi again, Dmitry,

>> It cannot be simply replaced, because the links in the old copy are wrong. I've spent time on adjusting all the links in the documentation sources to point to the new site structure.

It looks like you didn't commit any of your changes to CVS; is that correct?

Also, did you only modify the sources and upload the generated content as-is, or did you have to post-process the HTML as well?

Another thing: most <ulink>s that point to within the Firebird site are either relative (in which case they can stay as they are) or absolute local links into the /manual or /pdfmanual trees. /manual and /pdfmanual (and a couple more) are symlinks to the real locations. They were created for two reasons:

a) to save use some typing
b) to make them independent from the real paths

I.e., by creating a handful of symlinks on the new site, these links don't have to be updated at all.

On the new site, in the web root directory, manual should point to file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html, and pdfmanual to file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/

If this is feasible (and I don't see why not) I'll provide a full list of required symlinks. This will take care of most of the broken links. The others will have to be fixed by hand.


Cheers,
Paul Vinkenoog