sagemath
Broken links on the website
I ran an URL checker on the website (https://github.com/sagemath/website/pull/57), and there are several broken links that I do not know how to fix. Here they are: http://www.steinertriples.fr/ncohen/tmp/linkchecker-out.html
When those will be fixed, I will ran the checker again, this time checking external links.
Nathann
@nathanncohen is this issue solved? If not I'll like to resolve this. would need some help too.
There are seven items in @nathanncohen's list. I'll give details about them separately.
Item 1. On the page
http://www.sagemath.org/library-marketing.html
line 191 contains
<div class="narrow txt">More marketing resources are available <a href="./files/marketing/">here</a>.
This link points to
http://www.sagemath.org/files/marketing/
which is "404 Not Found".
The internet archive has a copy of the old page, see:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sagemath.org/files/marketing/
There, the last snapshot shows a "404 Not Found" but the last-but-one snapshot is still good:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317144653/http://sagemath.org/files/marketing/
and contains a list of files in a directory.
Can we locate where that went, and update the link?
One possibility is that the files are still there but the change of website engine means that directory urls now display as "404 Not Found" instead of displaying the directory listing.
In that case, we would want to create an index.html file with the links to the items in the directory.
Item 2. On the page
http://www.sagemath.org/library-marketing.html
line 268 contains
<a href="./res/sage-sticker-1x1_inch.zip"><img src="./pix/sage-sticker-1x1_inch-small.png"/></a>
in which the link points to
http://www.sagemath.org/res/sage-sticker-1x1_inch.zip
which is "404 Not Found".
Can we locate that file? If so, update the link. If not, replace the link by a link to the png.
<a href="./pix/sage-sticker-1x1_inch.png"><img src="./pix/sage-sticker-1x1_inch-small.png"/></a>
Item 3. On the page
http://www.sagemath.org/library-press.html
line 297 reads
<td>> 300 <a href="http://sagemath.org/src-old/">Releases</a></td>
in which the link points to
http://sagemath.org/src-old/
which is now redirected to
http://old.files.sagemath.org/src-old/
Although this works, it would be better to update the link, changing line 297 to
<td>> 300 <a href="http://old.files.sagemath.org/src-old/">releases</a></td>
Item 4. On the page
http://www.sagemath.org/mirrors.html
line 226 reads
Check status of <a href="./mirror_manager.txt">Mirror Management</a> script.
where the link points to
http://www.sagemath.org/mirror_manager.txt
which is "404 Not Found".
Searching for mirror_manager.txt on the github repo for the sagemath website:
https://github.com/sagemath/website/search?q=mirror_manager.txt
gives a few results, but most of the time the string "mirror_manager.txt" appears in commented-out lines. Maybe @haraldschilly can comment.
Item 5. On the page
http://www.sagemath.org/development.html
line 228 reads
<li><a href="./changelogs/">Release Notes</a></li>
in which the link points to
http://www.sagemath.org/changelogs/
which is "404 Not Found", but this is #67.
@slel
for Item1:
As it seems to me yes we have to create a new index.html for this. as the files are still present there only, but are not getting listed/displayed.
currently I'm taking care of
Item1:
listing all the files in the marketing directory via making a new index.html
Item2 and Item3: replacing the link as I didn't find anything related to Item2 in any other directories.
Item4:
needs some more details, as I found that there is a mirror_manager.html file but no mirror_manager.txt file anywhere I guess.
So, need some guidance as to what to do with that.
Item5: Already resolved as Issue #67 is resolved.
Coming with a PR upto this only. for rest of the Items I'll make them in my next PR.