Gav.... wrote:
The code in question :
(can you please respond to thread with comments inline. It make it much
easier to catch up with a thread or read it in the archives when we have
forgotten what the "question" is)
<match pattern="rewriteDemo/**">
<location src="http://www.burrokeet.org/{1}.html"/>
</match>
<match pattern="remoteDemo/**.xml">
<location
src="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/main/fresh-site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/{1}.xml"/>
</match
The target of rewriteDemo is http://burrokeet.org ,
now it may be that this site was down, but it seems more than
coincidence that these failures were happening at the time of
when svn was down, but the failure was rewriteDemo not remoteDemo.(?)
rewrite is an external retreiveal.
remote demo was internal (i.e. within apache machines not onto the Internet)
I guess it was a routing problem.
Anyway, I agree with the comments about creating options for testing.
I also agree that it is a good facility for testing external broken links,
it
should not hold up development or testing of a site just because an external
link
is down for some reason. (As in this case, the broken link was temporary
and not permanent)
If someone wants to point me where I can look to have a go at implementing
and creating CLI choices - if thats the way you want to go.
Here's my suggestion (not done the necessary investigation work, so it
may not be 100% accurate):
First thing to do is crete an issue (if there isn't one already) and add
links this and the other thread david linked to.
The config property will be in forrest.properties (these can be
overridden from the CLI).
The handling of the porperty and the errors will need to be in the
locationmap java code. I'd suggest that if no match is found for an lm:
entry we look at the property and do one of the following:
1) add "error: Not Found: " to the lm: string so that errors like this
one would appear as "error: Not Found: lm:rewriteDemo/index.html"
or
2) replace the lm: link with "missingExternalPageWarnings.xml" and add
an entry to this document for each reference that is missing, e.g.
<page href="lm:rewriteDemo/index" referrer="xyz.html"/>
Ross
