Hello Andreas, On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:01:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: [..] > I generate multi language pages for Debian Blends. FOr instance you > can see the tasks pages of Debian Science here: > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/ > > The generated files have the language extension in the end of the > files *after* the .html extension. The htaccess file looks like this:
On the website www.debian.org, the files (at least most of) are named "filename.$lang.html", and all the links point to "filename", without any extension, so that apache tries to serve filename.$lang*. (And it makes the links cleaner and language-independent) > Options +MultiViews [..] > AddLanguage pl .pl_PL > AddLanguage cs .cs [..] > Xou see the trick with .pl_PL for Polish language to make sure the > client does not asusme the downloaded file is not an active Perl > file. I recently learned that also .es extension is regarded as active > content and the files which are intended to display the Spanish > translation. I tried to learn from www.debian.org where the > language extension is followed by .html which seems to prevent > this problem. There is no need to do so IMO : - the client (should) rely only on the Content-Type to decide how to handle the content served - the extension of the filename really served would appear only in the Content-Location. > Is there any chance to have a look onto the file system of > www.debian.org to steal some ideas how to do things the right way > (tm)? Here is the page that describes the webserver configuration : http://debian.org/mirror/webmirror#ref Hope it helps. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
