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Bug 315416

Summary: Make http://help.eclipse.org/index.jsp redirect to latest release index.jsp
Product: Community Reporter: Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, gunnar, markus.kell.r, stepper, webmaster
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-06-02 11:53:39 EDT 
A bare "http://help.eclipse.org" redirects to the help for the latest release:
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp

Links to specific help pages look something like this:
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/notices.html

It would be nice if we can have links like this:
http://help.eclipse.org/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/notices.html
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
which would automatically redirect to the latest release (eg "/galileo/index.jsp")
Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2010-06-02 13:13:07 EDT 
Great idea. Does it have to be index.jsp? What about a simpler rewrite rule?

http://help.eclipse.org/topic/(.)+ 

 becomes 

http://help.eclipse.org/<whatever>/index.jsp?topic=$1
Comment 2 Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-06-02 13:20:29 EDT 
This came out of bug 315388, basically we're just looking for a way to point to individual topics in a version independent way, so yes, /topic/(.) seems even better.
Comment 3 Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-11-17 10:43:38 EST 
Ping.
Was updating out-of-date links on wiki pages which reminded me of this.
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2010-11-18 09:58:07 EST 
I've added the /topic/* rewrite rule.

-M.
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 2011-05-12 11:18:39 EDT 
The link from comment 0 can now be written like this (note the // after topic):

http://help.eclipse.org/topic//org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/notices.html