Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

> > Hey, would making meetings.html a symbolic link to another file preserve 
> > the URL without being tied to a specific file?
> >    
> Presuming that Apache's Options FollowSymLinks is on for that
> directory.
>
> But why clutter things with sym links when you could just not change
> the file layout? (Again, what good reason would there be *to*
> change?)

Well, if you have http://www.something.org/current-events.html the 
symlink could point to the latest news file without changing file names 
or deleting the older files.  For example, one day current-events.html 
could point to news101102.html and the next day it could point to 
news101202.html.  If that is scripted it could fall under the catagory 
of dynamic content--automatically changing content without constant 
human intervention--while maintaining the same URL.  But, something 
other than a symlink might be better.

I didn't notice if the PLUG site is using PHP, but it should.


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