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diff --git a/doc/bugs/po:__apache_config_serves_index_directory_for_index.mdwn b/doc/bugs/po:__apache_config_serves_index_directory_for_index.mdwn index 05eec7eee..7a0e42b90 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/po:__apache_config_serves_index_directory_for_index.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/po:__apache_config_serves_index_directory_for_index.mdwn @@ -50,3 +50,23 @@ directory, rather than the site's index page! >> something else as extensions (Polish, `.pl`, is the usual example, >> since many sites interpret `.pl` as "this is a (Perl) CGI"). >> --[[smcv]] + +>>> There is something to be said about "index/foo" being really ugly +>>> and perhaps it would be nice to use something else. There does not +>>> appear to even be one function that could be changed; "$page/foo" is +>>> hardwired into ikiwiki in many places as a place to dump subsidiary +>>> content -- and it's not even consistent, since there is also eg, +>>> "$page.rss". I agree, approaching it from this direction would be a +>>> mess or a lot of work. +>>> +>>> Type maps seem like a valid option, but also a lot of clutter. +>>> +>>> `index.html.pl` does seem to be asking for trouble, even if apache +>>> can be configured to DTRT. It would make serving actual up perl scripts +>>> hard, at least. But that is some good out of the box thinking.. +>>> perhaps "index.foo.pl.html"? +>>> +>>> However, that would mean that +>>> web servers need to be configured differently to serve translated +>>> and non-translated sites. The current apache configuration for po +>>> can be used with non-po sites and they still work. --[[Joey]] |