/multipage/ .htaccess

[annevk]

https://github.com/whatwg/html-build/blob/master/build.sh#L49 creates a .htaccess for /multipage/ which overlaps a bit with https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/master/.htaccess. Also, seems weird to generate it like this rather than do the same as with multipage-404...

[domenic]

This seems like a "good first bug" for you or @foolip to do in order to make sure I'm not the only one who understands how the build system works :)

[annevk]

I'm happy to change this somehow. Should we just kill it in favor of having a single .htaccess in the root? And merge all the rules into whatwg/html?

[domenic]

I don't think we can do that for the 404. But all the filetype rules should be merged, and then, hmm... We could either:

• Add a .multipage-htaccess that gets copied over, similar to .multipage-404
• Change the setup so that:
  • whatwg/html has a multipage directory containing .htaccess and 404.html
  • the build script copies .wattsi-output/multipage-html into multipage/, instead of the current setup which assembles .wattsi-output/multipage-html and then moves it to multipage/.

[domenic]

Maybe we can do that for the 404 actually, we just need to learn how to scope .htaccess rules to one subdirectory.

[foolip]

OK, so here's what the generated /mutlipage/.htaccess looks like:

ErrorDocument 404 /multipage/404.html
<files *.txt>
 ForceType text/plain
</files>
<files *.js>
 ForceType text/javascript
</files>
<files *.css>
 ForceType text/css
</files>
<files *.html>
 ForceType text/html
</files>

Comparing that to https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/master/.htaccess I take it the solution here is to eliminate duplication and move as much as possible to the top-level .htaccess?

As for the 404, can't we use the same 404 for everything?

[foolip]

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/not-here says "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." so that's a problem...

[annevk]

If we did the script might need adjustments too. That would make building potentially simpler though since you could just keeping throwing away /multipage/ as is happening now.

[domenic]

As for the 404, can't we use the same 404 for everything?

I don't think so. The multipage 404 is specifically designed to be a redirect, by including fragment-links.js and some multipage-specific text. See whatwg/html#79.

But yes, I agree with moving as much as possible to the top level.

[annevk]

I think the 404 is actually generic enough and you only get the redirect if the URL ends in a fragment that is understood by the script. Not needing either the 404 or the .htaccess in /multipage/ would reduce some complexity so I think we should just go for that. The only thing we need to change is the URL pointing to the script and the URL pointing to the /multipage/ contents.

I will work on some patches unless I hear otherwise.

[annevk]

Fixed through #18 and whatwg/html#107.