#507 renamed files

[Chris Crawford]

some of the links are broken on
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
because .txt files were renamed to .rst:
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickstart.txt
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/cheatsheet.txt
there may be others

[Günter Milde]

Thank you for the report.
This will be fixed soon. (After sourceforge lets me commit from git-svn again...)

[Günter Milde]

Fixed. Thanks again.

[Ernstkm]

The URL https://www.docutils.org/rst.html still appears high in search engine results for "restructuredtext cheatsheet," and still contains the broken links.

That appears to be hosted with GitHub Pages. Is docutils.org officially associated with this (SourceForge) project, and if so, where would I send the patch / PR if I wanted to help out?

[Chris Crawford]

Is it cached?

--Chris

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 21:55 Ernstkm ernstkm@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

The URL https://www.docutils.org/rst.html still appears high in search
engine results for "restructuredtext cheatsheet," and still contains the
broken links.

That appears to be hosted with GitHub Pages. Is docutils.org officially
associated with this (SourceForge) project, and if so, where would I send
the patch / PR if I wanted to help out?

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[bugs:#507] https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/507/ renamed files

Status: closed-fixed
Labels: docs
Created: Mon Jul 28, 2025 04:13 AM UTC by Chris Crawford
Last Updated: Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:25 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

some of the links are broken on
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
because .txt files were renamed to .rst:
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickstart.txt
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/cheatsheet.txt
there may be others

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[Ernstkm]

No, not a cache problem. The URL is https://www.docutils.org/rst.html. It's a live page that you can't get to except through search engine results (where it ranks highly) or having bookmarked the URL, but that live page has broken links.

The broken links I'm referring to specifically are:

• https://www.docutils.org/docs/user/rst/quickstart.txt
• https://www.docutils.org/docs/user/rst/cheatsheet.txt

These each result in a 404 error page from GitHub.

What I'm wondering is, where would I go to help fix this: Sourceforge or GitHub? One project refers to https://docutils.sourceforge.io and the other refers to https://docutils.org.

Are both URLs related and under the control of the same group of people? If so, perhaps one should merely 301 Moved Permanently redirect to the other? I don't think there's any SEO penalty for this, and saves somebody from having to chase down deployment problems in two different places in the future.