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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 index e25bc06a7..3203ce0bb 100644 --- a/doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/transition_from_handwritten_html_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -36,3 +36,32 @@ files were removed on a rebuild: 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]] |