Re: broken links (intermittent)

["Selena Deckelmann" <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Selena Deckelmann
> <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Could we put a more informative 404 message in place? A contextual one
> would
> > be ideal. In this case, we could serve a "not found" page with a
> suggestion
> > to check out the backups portion of the documentation.
> >
> > Or, maybe in this specific case there should just be a redirect to the
> top
> > of the backups-related docs.
>
> Not easily, if at all. The documentation is dynamically generated from
> a database on the master server, which certainly doesn't know what
> pages might have been present in previous releases, at least without
> trawling through them all and trying to figure it out.
>
> The frontend servers that you actually get the pages from are all
> static servers that just serve the pre-generated HTML. They have no
> way of dynamically generating a 404 page.


Ok.  Can we at least put up a static 404 error page?

I have one mocked up, attached.



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