Add redirect for themes.html

[xPaw]

It's linked here: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/blob/dedaa1f33767b94bf3c2f0208a37e6877800d248/defaults/config.js#L68

If you try going to next subdomain, it 404s instead of redirecting.

Perhaps we need a *.html redirect or specify all the other rewrites with .html?

[astorije]

I'm really confused, the URLs without .html used to redirect fine. I remember specifically testing that, I wonder what broke it.

There is some sort of precedence in how they handle 1) removing the .html 2) checking the redirects file. This tells me I got the precedence wrong (again, wondering why since it used to work). So instead of adding a themes.html redirect, we should add .html to all of them. Mind trying that and seeing if it works?

[xPaw]

Yeah that doesn't work, we have to specify both .html and no .html versions...

It probably broke when we 'fixed' .html removal on existing pages.

[astorije]

Yeah that doesn't work, we have to specify both .html and no .html versions...

That doesn't feel right, I'm pretty sure their engine used to normalize stuff first. Let me reach out to them and show them this.

[xPaw]

Did you reach them? I'd say we do this for now, until we find a better solution.

[astorije]

I did, twice in fact, and it looks like my messages got dropped on their support system, that's annoying. I'll reach out again.

EDIT: Done, will follow-up here when I have news.

[astorije]

So this is the answer I got from them:

We don't rewrite urls with the extension automatically, even with pretty urls enabled. What pretty urls does is it changes the actual links in your html code to remove the extension. That said, the only way to accomplish what you need is to duplicate your redirects.

You could do this using a script so you don't have to do this by hand. You just need the _redirects file to exist in the _site folder by the end of your build. Hope that clears up the situation a bit.

So it seems like duplicates are the only way to go, bit of a shame. I'm not sure it's worth the maintenance effort of dynamically generating the file however when a handful of duplicates would do.