On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Olaf Till wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Julien Bect wrote: > > Le 12/06/2017 à 11:22, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I just realized that for most if not all of our Forge packages, the URL > > >in the Homepage field of debian/control is no longer valid. > > > > > >Apparently it is because a trailing slash is now required. For example, > > >currently for octave-optim we have… > > > > > >Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/optim > > > > > >…which no longer works (404 error). > > > > > >However, it works if one adds a trailing slash (http://octave.sourcefor > > >ge.io/optim/). By the way, one is automatically redirected to a secure > > >URL. > > > > > >I am not familiar enough with the Forge website, so I don't know if > > >this should be considered as a bug to be fixed on that side, or if we > > >should update all our packages. Any opinion by people more familiar > > >with the topic? > > > > Hello Sébastien, > > > > I have no idea, but I am CC'ing the OF admins. > > I've put all package html directories from top level to a common > subdirectory "packages/" today, to cleanup the top level > directory. The internal redirections worked at my local machine, I > didn't realize this issue at the sourceforge machine. > > It seems logical that apaches mod_dir can't add a trailing slash for > directories that don't exist before re-writing them. But on my local > machine adding the trailing slash worked anyway, I don't know how. > > My first attempts to fix this in .htaccess had no success. I'll need a > bit time. Do you think I'll have to revert the change as long as I've > not fixed it? It would make testing inconvenient. Should be fixed now, though not in a nice way. Olaf -- public key id EAFE0591, e.g. on x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
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