Page GettingStarted -> Installation does not exist

[Vespasian]

https://podman.io/getting-started/installation linked from https://podman.io/docs/tutorials/podman_tutorial
errors out

[vsoch]

+1 - I came here to say this! I did a good search for the install, clicked on the link, and it was a 404. And then I did the following:

• Went to the main root -> "Getting Started"
• There was no Install section of that. It assumes I have it installed
• Then I tried "Documentation" assuming ti would be a bullet there, it was not
• There is also no search, so I can't even search for the "install" term
• There is no obvious installation tutorial either

From a user standpoint coming to the docs, my frustration level is 10/10. Please fix this asap!

[krwu]

+1

I reinstalled one of my VPS and want to try podman instead of docker, but I failed at the very first step: "Installing podman by following its official guide".

[Luap99]

I agree due the new website move most links are just broken. I really would love if we could redirect all old links to the correct new places if necessary. See https://containers.github.io/podman.io_old/old/getting-started/installation for the old site. I don't understand why you moved everything under a old directory there, @TomSweeneyRedHat?

So far I did not find a replacement for the old installation instructions on the new site so we definitely have to add this back somewhere.

cc @containers/podman-maintainers @lilyx13 @mairin

[TomSweeneyRedHat]

Thanks for the issue reports. We'll track down the issue and get things straightened out.

[ashx3s]

Fixing this now. links will be updated shortly

[ashx3s]

should be good after #67.

[Luap99]

https://podman.io/getting-started/installation is still a dead link, please make it so it redirects to the new location.

[ashx3s]

where is this link being used? the new url is https://podman.io/docs/tutorials/installation

[Luap99]

Over the whole internet? Sure we can update the links in our repos but the main problem is the link is out there somewhere, blogs post, bookmarked by users, etc... we cannot just "update them".
I have no problems with having a new location but the old link should be redirected to the new one. I am not familiar with the docusaurus but in HTTP terms all we need is a HTTP 301 redirect. If you do not have time I can look into that, this is important to me.

[Luap99]

https://docusaurus.io/docs/docusaurus-core#redirect looks relevent

[TomSweeneyRedHat]

@lilyx13, as @Luap99 noted, the links are all over the internet, we need to get them back if they're not already. That was what I was trying to do yesterday, had issues, and pinged you in slack about them.

@Luap99 , I moved everything in the old site to live under the "old" directory to make sure that someone didn't merge something in that repo (github.com/containers/podman.io_old) and then accidentally have everything for the new page be overwritten when a PR was merged. I had hoped that all the pages would pop up under podman.io/old for easier reference/accessibility, but that failed and I've not had time to track that down yet.

[ashx3s]

In #92 I merged a change that will at least take care of this for pages searching for getting-started/installation. It's a little hacky, but I couldn't get the docusaurus module for redirects to work right, but in the pages/getting-started/ directory, there is a .tsx file for handling the installation redirect. others could be added if necessary with a slight modification of the url and the file name.

[Luap99]

@Luap99 , I moved everything in the old site to live under the "old" directory to make sure that someone didn't merge something in that repo (github.com/containers/podman.io_old) and then accidentally have everything for the new page be overwritten when a PR was merged. I had hoped that all the pages would pop up under podman.io/old for easier reference/accessibility, but that failed and I've not had time to track that down yet.

I see, yeah this is not going to work AFAIK. Each repo can only have one domain. To achieve something like this you would need a reverse proxy that we can configure. Github pages basically just allows one domain per repo. Or you would need to copy all the old pages over to this repo here.

I think the best way if you want to keep the old site around would be add a old.podman.io domain to the old repo (and then just revert old/ directory change there). This was users would be able to browse old.podman.io if necessary.

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@lilyx13 Thanks, redirect seems to work fine me so I going to close this issue then.