> > Did you really just say that every file should just be abstracted as a
> > directory... how much of that web 2.0 Kool-Aid did you drink?
>
> Is there an easier way to encourage clean URLs?
>
> Without resorting to crazy rewrites?
'Options +Multiviews' in .htaccess works a charm. Making a directory
for every page is not what timbl meant when he recommended URLs that
don't expose the technology they're using (which could change).
> Why bother? The troves of people who cried at Google Reader shutting
> down would say otherwise. RSS is "dying" because companies like
> Google, Facebook, Twitter want to *own* the flow of information, and
> they can't do that when the world uses open plumbing. This is BS.
Well said, Andrew, thanks.
I still don't really understand what people are doing that requires
~200 lines of shell. I haven't looked at the OP's code, but for
completeness I'm attaching the Makefile I use for a website, which I
happen to like.
Nick
src = \
index.md \
software/index.md \
otherplaces.md
tgt = $(src:.md=.html)
lnk = $(tgt:.html=)
gz = $(tgt:.html=.html.gz)
all: $(tgt) $(gz)
.md.html:
echo "Making $@"
echo "<!doctype html><html><head><title>" > $@
sed 's/^#* //;1q' < $< >> $@
echo "</title></head>" >> $@
echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style" /><body>' >> $@
smu < $< >> $@
echo "<hr /><p>Last updated: " >> $@
stat -c %y $< | awk '{print $$1}' >> $@
echo "</p></body></html>" >> $@
ln -sf $@ $*
# not POSIX
%.gz: %
echo "Compressing $<"
gzip < $< > $@
clean:
rm -f $(tgt) $(lnk) $(gz)
.PHONY: all clean
.SUFFIXES: .md .html .gz
.SILENT:
Options +Multiviews
AddEncoding x-gzip .gz
