www-dev is auto-prefixing /b/ magically

[jlongster]

In the past few weeks, the www-dev site started auto-prefix /b/ to links when the page is served up from /b/. If it's not served from /b/ it doesn't prepend /b/ to the links.

Magic.

And I hate magic! I want to know what's doing this. I had built in the auto-prefixing but it broke when this started happened (urls had TWO /b/ in them).

[jlongster]

Example:

http://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/b2g/ -> "About" link is http://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/b2g/about/

http://www-dev.allizom.org/b/en-US/b2g/ -> "About" link is http://www-dev.allizom.org/b/en-US/b2g/about/

[fwenzel]

Uh, actually this is kind of how it's been working since the beginning, and that's expected behavior from Django's wsgi handler. If you want to enforce a prefix (even if that is empty), then look at:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/?from=olddocs#forcing-the-url-prefix-to-a-particular-value

The use case for that option is not fastcgi-based servers (read: not Apache), but it should work here too.

[jlongster]

It wasn't working like this a few weeks ago which is why I patched url() to auto-prefix it on the dev site. So something changed recently, but if it's django's wsgi stuff reading the SCRIPT_URL, that's cool.

[jlongster]

Closing, seems to be consistently working now, so that works for me.