[tei-council] Linking issue in the Guidelines

[Martin Holmes]

I wonder if we could just replace that JSP page with a static page? The 
only thing a 404 page tells you other than that something's not found is 
to echo back at you the URL you tried to access, which isn't very useful 
anyway, since it's in your browser address bar. A dead-simple HTML page 
based on our regular templates might work as a drop-in replacement.

I could be misunderstanding how the JSP calls work, though.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-02-27 06:32 AM, David Sewell wrote:
> I have just taken a quick look to see what I can see in the CMS. I've
> never attempted to do anything with those standard error templates.
>
> In this case it looks like OpenCMS is using
> /system/handler/handle404.html. Unfortunately, that is a JSP page that
> consists pretty much entirely of calls to variables defined elsewhere,
> so unless there's some modular way of changing the 404 behavior it's not
> going to be trivially easy to change. I can't figure out where the
> variables are defined, either.
>
> If I have time later today I'll poke around more, but this is my last
> day in the office before a week's vacation so I have a lot on my plate.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> Among those of us who have access to the CMS, does anyone have access
>> above /sites/default/? That's all I can see. I hate to bother Ian with
>> this sort of thing, but if none of us can actually edit outside that
>> area, we'll have to.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 14-02-27 03:43 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26 Feb 2014, at 23:59, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The question on whether the 404 page could be fixed up a bit still
>>>> stands, though -- I don't have access high enough up the tree in the
>>>> CMS to see where it's coming from, but if one of you does, could you
>>>> fix the spelling error ("occured")? And could we also think about a
>>>> page which matches the site design?
>>>
>>>
>>> i agree, that 404 page makes us look unprofessional and disorganised.
>>> it comes up much too readily….
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