X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/14b8abe60f02a9a31eb4b7ad489e6806637610f7..1cfaacbfb5d34983655efd251566403fd8d8f45c:/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn index 4ca2b4bef..7c3d13387 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn @@ -51,3 +51,21 @@ And I'm sure someone else could come up with something better and more general. > directly, my HTTP vs. HTTPS cleanup in recent versions should mean that > you rarely get redirected to `alfred`, because most URLs are either > relative or "local" (start with '/'). --[[smcv]] + +>> I did try setting `url` to the "Alfred" machine, but that doesn't seem clean to me at all, since it forces someone to go to Alfred when they started off on Betty. +>> Even worse, it prevents me from setting up a test environment on, say, Cassandra, because as soon as one tries to search, one goes to Alfred, then Betty, and not back to Cassandra at all. +>> Hardcoded solutions make me nervous. + +>> I suppose what I would like would be to not need to use a `` in searching at all. +>> --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +>>> `` is *not* required to be absolute in HTML5, so when +>>> `html5: 1` is used, I've changed it to be host-relative in most cases. +>>> I think that at least partially addresses this bug report, +>>> particularly if we [[todo/generate HTML5 by default]] like I've suggested. +>>> +>>> The `` is there so we can avoid having to compute how to +>>> get to (the virtual directory containing) the root of the wiki from +>>> `ikiwiki.cgi`, which might well be somewhere odd like `/cgi-bin/`. +>>> I think there are probably other things that it fixes or simplifies. +>>> --[[smcv]]