Re: [Gramps-devel] Narrative website file paths

[Stéphane C. <ste...@gm...>]

The path names were changed in an earlier 3.x release of GRAMPS.  I
don't remember the minor version number, nor do I remember who made
that change.

The explanation given on the dev mailing list after it was noticed was
that this new way better distributes the files randomly.  That is why
old links now 404.  :(

Many of us were disappointed when that happened, as it invalidated
years of countless links in e-mails and external web sites, but it
wasn't discovered until after the release.  I still get hundreds of
404 requests per week on my own web server at home for old GRAMPS
pages, so I know this problem still affects lots of peoples.  I
actually went through the effort of creating a 404 page for my GRAMPS
web server specfically to deal with this issue.  See this for example:

http://charette.no-ip.com:1234/Charette/ppl/q/0/ZEVZ9DK5ZMZ3HPSE0Q.html

We could auto-generate such a page with the right CSS if people are
interested.  In my opinion it is better than a vanilla 404.

(BTW -- that 404.html page I wrote is dated April 7th on my system, so
that gives you a general idea of the release:  it most likely happened
in 3.1.0 or 3.1.1.)

Stéphane