The header of subpages always links to its "superpage", even if it doesn't
exist. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but I would certainly prefer
that superpages weren't mandatory.
For example, if you are in 'example/page.html', the header will be something
like 'wiki / example / page'. Now, if 'example.html' doesn't exist, you'll have
a dead link for every subpage.
This is a bug, but fixing it is very tricky. Consider what would happen if
example.mdwn were created: example/page.html and the rest of example/*
would need to be updated to change the parentlink from a bare word to a
link to the new page. Now if example.mdwn were removed again, they'd need
to be updated again. So example/* depends on example. But it's even more
tricky, because if example.mdwn is modified, we don't want to rebuild
example/*!
ikiwiki doesn't have a way to represent this dependency and can't get one
without a lot of new complex code being added.
Note that this code has now been added. In new terms, example/* has a
presence dependency on example. So this bug is theoretically fixable now.
--[[Joey]]
For now the best thing to do is to make sure that you always create
example if you create example/foo. Which is probably a good idea anyway..
Note that this bug does not exist if the wiki is built with the "usedirs"
option, since in that case, the parent link will link to a subdirectory,
that will just be missing the index.html file, but still nicely usable.
--[[Joey]]
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing.html does not exist.
Then, on
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/writing/example.html, in the
parentlinks line, writing links to the top-level index file. It should
rather not link anywhere at all. --[[tschwinge]]
So, the bug has changed behavior a bit. Rather than a broken link, we get
a link to the toplevel page. This, FWIW, is because the template now
uses this for each parentlink:
<a href="<TMPL_VAR URL>"><TMPL_VAR PAGE></a>/
Best workaround is still to enable usedirs. --[[Joey]]
