HTML Redirects Missing

[danielzgtg]

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7f3df5772439eee1c512ed2eb540beef1124d236/RELEASES.md#compiler-1 links to https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html but it is now a 404.

I had to dig around to find out that it has been moved to https://forge.rust-lang.org/release/platform-support.html now. Looking through archive.org, it seems that the page was indeed moved and there used to be a redirect to the proper page. However, that redirect is missing now. It would be nice for the redirect to be restored or the dead link to be fixed.

[XAMPPRocky]

Thank you for your issue! The code for this is here. I can replicate that its not generating redirects, however I can't tell why. It doesn't panic, and seems to be writing to the correct paths.

rust-forge/blacksmith/src/lib.rs

Lines 173 to 183 in 2c1abee

	for (filename, url) in REDIRECTS {
	let template = include_str!("../redirect.html").replace("{{url}}", url);
	log::trace!("Redirecting {} to {}.", filename, url);
	if let Some(parent) = Path::new(filename).parent() {
	std::fs::create_dir_all(dir.join(parent)).unwrap();
	}
	std::fs::write(dir.join(filename), template).unwrap();
	}

[danielzgtg]

I tried to do a Git bisect but ran into a strange problem. I can't find the last good commit.

I've tried d89a96a which is the first commit with mdbook, edd938e which is an early commit with blacksmith, 8fcbfe7 which is between 2019-09-21 and 2019-10-08, as well as many other commits. In all of those cases, I get a 404 when visiting http://127.0.0.1:3000/platform-support.html after running mdbook serve. It doesn't generate a file in book/ either.

This is unexpected because archive.org clearly shows that the redirects were present at some time. This fact worsens the problem because I can't reproduce that desired behavior.

[XAMPPRocky]

@danielzgtg Thank you for doing this, would you be able to test the code using a previous mdbook version? It could be a regression in the tool itself.

[XAMPPRocky]

This has now been resolved with the release of mdbook 0.4.0