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author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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tree | 1ba1a0c94e375ab8ed609eaa57a542c6b87de5a8 /doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a8d04a0ad --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +I'm trying to convert hand written html site to ikiwiki and maintain url compatibility. html plugin with indexpages=1 converts all dir_name/index.html correctly to dir_name urls with wiki/css based content, but somedir/somefile.html files are only accessible as somedir/somefile/. Non .html files seem to accessible with their full paths, for example somedir/pic.jpg from hand written html can be accessed by same path under ikiwiki. + +How to make somedir/somefile.html accessible as somedir/somefile.html under ikiwiki? + +Thanks, + +-Mikko + +> Hello! The options you need to investigate are `--usedirs` and +> `--no-usedirs`. The default `--usedirs` takes any source page foo +> (regardless of its format, be it markdown or html) and converts it into a +> destination page foo/index.html (URL foo/). By comparison, `--no-usedirs` +> maps the source file onto a destination file directly: src/foo.html becomes +> dest/foo.html, src/bar.mdwn becomes dest/bar.html, etc. +> +> It sounds like you want `--no-usedirs`, or the corresponding `usedirs => 0,` +> option in your setup file. See [[usage]] for more information. -- [[Jon]] + +Thanks, usedirs seems to be just the thing I need. + +-Mikko + +Actually usedirs didn't do exactly what I want. The old site contains both +somedir/index.html and somedir/somename.html files. With html plugin and +indexpages=1 the somedir/index.html pages are accessed correctly but +somedir/somefile.html files not. + +With usedirs => 0, somedir/somename.html pages are accessed correctly but +somedir/index.html pages are not. Actually the handwritten somedir/index.html +files were removed on a rebuild: + + $ ikiwiki -setup blog.setup -rebuild -v + ... + removing test2/index.html, no longer built by test2 + +Is there a way for both index.html and somename.html raw html files to show up through ikiwki? + +-Mikko + +> I think you want usedirs => 0 and indexpages => 0? +> +> What IkiWiki does is to map the source filename to an abstract page name +> (indexpages alters how this is done), then map the abstract page name +> to an output filename (usedirs alters how this is done). +> +> The three columns here are input, abstract page name, output: +> +> usedirs => 0, indexpages => 0: +> a/index.html -> a/index -> a/index.html +> a/b.html -> a/b -> a/b.html +> usedirs => 1, indexpages => 0: +> a/index.html -> a/index -> a/index/index.html +> a/b.html -> a/b -> a/b/index.html +> usedirs => 0, indexpages => 1: +> a/index.html -> a -> a.html +> a/b.html -> a/b -> a/b.html +> usedirs => 1, indexpages => 1: +> a/index.html -> a -> a/index.html +> a/b.html -> a/b -> a/b/index.html +> +> The abstract page name is what you use in wikilinks and pagespecs. +> +> What I would suggest you do instead, though, is break your URLs once +> (but put in Apache redirections), to get everything to be consistent; +> I strongly recommend usedirs => 1 and indexpages => 0, then always +> advertising URLs that look like <http://www.example.com/a/b/>. This is +> what ikiwiki.info itself does, for instance. --[[smcv]] + +Thanks for the explanation. usedirs => 0 and indexpages => 0 does the trick, +but I'll try to setup mod_rewrite from foo/bar.html to foo/bar in the final +conversion. + +-Mikko + +> That's roughly what I do, but you can do it with `Redirect` and `RedirectMatch` from `mod_alias`, rather than fire up rewrite. Mind you I don't write a generic rule, I have a finite set of pages to redirect which I know. -- [[Jon]] + +I'm getting closer. Now with usedirs => 1 and raw html pages, ikiwiki transforms foo/index.html to foo/index/index.html. +Can ikiwiki be instructed map foo/index.html to page foo instead that foo/index? + +-Mikko + +> If you don't already have a foo.html in your source, why not just rename foo/index.html to foo.html? With usedirs, it will then map to foo/index.html. Before, you had 'foo/' and 'foo/index.html' as working URLS, and they will work after too. +> +> If you did have a foo.html and a foo/index.html, hmm, that's a tricky one. -- [[Jon]] + +> We may be going round in circles - that's what indexpages => 1 does :-) +> See the table I constructed above, which explains the mapping from input +> files to abstract page names, and then the mapping from abstract page +> names to output files. (I personally think that moving your source pages +> around like Jon suggested is a better solution, though. --[[smcv]] |