making up-to-date server guide easier to find

Jonathan Jesse jjesse at iserv.net
Tue Nov 27 02:16:26 UTC 2007


> A google search for "ubuntu server guide" has this as the top hit:
>
>  http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html
>
> It does not indicate a version, does not link to other versions and I
> haven't figured out what version it is, but it is old.  Any sleuths
> out there?
>
> The second google hit is
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html
>
> which is just a little bit better, getting folks up to version 6.06,
> but not beyond.
>
> Shouldn't these two redirect to something closer to
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/
>
> (which needs a 2007 copyright....)
>
> I gather that part of the problem is that the URL changed from
> "serverguide" to "server" at some point, and the former is probably
> favored by google's heuristics.
>
> Perhaps a google site map would help:
>  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps
>
> Speaking of URLs, why is that "/C" in there?  It just seems to get in
> the way, lengthen the URL a bit, and lead to unproductive wondering
> about whether "/A", "/D" "/C++" or "/BCPL" would would be even better
> :-)
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
>
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As far as I know the C is the language code that we use for the default. 
If you look at the repository all of the docs are in /C/XXXXX.xml

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Jonathan Jesse






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