[jira] [Commented] (COMMONSSITE-75) Revert to short URLs for the component sites

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb commented on COMMONSSITE-75:
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There were several reasons why the /proper/ path segment was introduced:
* consistency with sandbox/dormant
* there are already some directories at top-level; using a sub-directory eliminates the possibility of name clashes
* makes the extpaths.txt file much simpler; does not have to be editted every time a new component is added

I'm not 100% sure why <componentName> was changed to commons-<componentName>.
The former is available from ${commons.componentid}; the latter from ${project.artifactId}.
I suspect it's not possible to use ${commons.componentid} directly, as that may not always be the correct value.
However, it would be possible to introduce a new property which defaults to ${commons.componentid} and only override where necessary.

I'm not saying that the layout cannot be changed, but it may not be trivial; it took a long time to get this one right.
                
> Revert to short URLs for the component sites
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMMONSSITE-75
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-75
>             Project: Commons All
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Site
>            Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
>
> With the recent site update the components are now published at the URL:
> {code}http://commons.apache.org/(proper|sandbox|dormant)/commons-<componentname>{code}
> That doesn't make very friendly URLs. "commons" is displayed twice, in the subdomain and before the component name. We should at least have:
> {code}http://commons.apache.org/(proper|sandbox|dormant)/<componentname>{code}
> And for the components in Commons Proper we should drop "proper" from the path such that we are back with the same, short, friendly URLs:
> {code}http://commons.apache.org/<componentname>{code}
> or
> {code}http://commons.apache.org/(sandbox|dormant)/<componentname>{code}

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