[tei-council] Linking issue in the Guidelines

[Martin Holmes]

Try the attached page and see what it looks like.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-02-27 09:31 AM, David Sewell wrote:
> I think that could be done by changing the OpenCMS type of the file from
> "JSP" to "text file". The styling would need to be done by manually
> copy-pasting from the generated HTML for a site page, because it
> wouldn't inherit any of the OpenCMS templates. But it wouldn't be hard
> to create something nicer than the existing one.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>> 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….
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sebastian Rahtz
>>>>> Director (Research) of Academic IT
>>>>> University of Oxford IT Services
>>>>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>>>>
>>>>> Não sou nada.
>>>>> Nunca serei nada.
>>>>> Não posso querer ser nada.
>>>>> À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
>>>>>
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