[Savannah-help-public] Re: www.gnu.org and .symlinks request from CLISP project

[Sam Steingold]

Hi,

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Sam Steingold says:
> ---
> when I click on http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/ in firefox, I get a
> dialog box saying "you have chosen to open <blank> which is a
> application/x-httpd-php what should Firefox do with this file?" --
> instead of the file being shown in the window.  the index.html is
> indeed a symlink to index.php.
> ---
>
> Sam, I guess you want something like:
>  <Files *.php>
>  ForceType text/html
>  </Files>
> to be added at www.gnu.org.
>
> Can you confirm?

Yes, I think this should solve the problem.
since you do not support PHP, this should not hurt.

> .symlinks is parsed by mod_rewrite so I suppose the behavior you
> experience is actually normal.

I see - I thought that an actual symlink is created on disk...

Thanks
Sam