X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a39a6911533afe79d1118ccd71ac84693f7501ff..11a67ae321e812c3b3bfb87f1a404d7c3c13b909:/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn index 24d411ae5..7c3d13387 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn @@ -43,3 +43,29 @@ It works for me, but it has the odd side-effect of prefixing links with a space. And I'm sure someone else could come up with something better and more general. --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +> The `` is required to be genuinely absolute (HTML 4.01 §12.4). +> Have you tried setting `url` to the public-facing URL, i.e. with `alfred` +> as the hostname? That seems like the cleanest solution to me; if you're +> one of the few behind the firewall and you access the site via `betty` +> 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]]