bug#80524: [Coreutils webpages] Proposed changes to symlinks

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Mar 2026 16:16:05 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/03/2026 13:52, Thérèse Godefroy via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> You probably know that there are talks to switch the www.gnu.org web
> server from Apache to Nginx. The problem is that Nginx doesn't support
> .htaccess. So we need to move the redirections that are now in
> /coreutils/.htaccess to .symlinks.
> 
> The new symlinks are in the attached patch, with the following
> differences with .htaccess:
> 
> - The coreutils.es.html entry was removed, because symlinks for HTML
> files are converted to rewrite directives that work for all languages.
> 
> - s/Multi-call-invocation.html/Multi_002dcall-invocation.html/
> 
> - The bracket function was enclosed in brackets because rewrite
> directives contain regexes. This trick has proven effective for
> commonc[+][+] rewriting.
> 
> - s/sha2-utilities/sha2-utilities.html/
> 
> If you agree but don't have time to apply the patch, I will gladly
> do it.

All looks good to me.

Please apply.

Marking this as done.

thanks!
Padraig