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Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 20:18:14 -0300 (ADT)
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To: Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca>
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So if a particular file is called .html in 20 diferent documents and I
rename it to .shtml, can I simply place a redirect symlink in the
directory:

   *.html --> *.shtml

   and hope it works?  Will a wildcard symlinks work like this until the
full the conversion is done?

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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Michael Smith wrote:

> You'll need to give the new files .shtml extensions instead of .html. This
> means links to those files will also change. I can think of two ways
> around this:
> a) Configure Apache to do SSI processing on all *.html files, in
>    addition to *.shtml (may increase system load somewhat)
> b) Remove extraneous *.html files; set a mod_rewrite handler on the
>    appropriate directories (/csuite/info/Help, etc.) to redirect *.html to
>    *.shtml if a corresponding .shtml file exists.
> 
> I think the second option will work best, so please name the new files
> with .shtml extensions, and fix what links you can, and if we end up not
> going that way I'll do a batch change in the other direction.
> 
> After looking at a couple of the pages you've updated following
> (non-SSI) template.html, you seem to have left enough of the comments and
> such in that I can probably write a script to change them to follow
> template.shtml.
> 
> I don't know about the other files, which haven't been touched
> yet. There's enough variety in the way they're marked up that a batch
> conversion to the SSI style would have mixed results.
> 
> Michael
> 

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