Redirects for the Lift Cookbook

Problem

At first the Cookbook was published at URLs like /Downloading and running Lift.html.

Then it was published at URLs like /#DownloadAndRun.

Now it runs over at O'Reilly's Atlas server, with URLs like ch01.html#DownloadAndRun.

We want to keep the URLs working as best we can.

Solution

• A set of nginx redirects for the first version of the site.

• A single HTML page with JavaScript to pick out the client-site anchor references and redirect based on the anchor.

The nginx redirects are in nginx.conf, between # Re-writes from ... and # End of cookbook rewrites. That file is the default nginx config which serves up an index.html page.

The JavaScript is in index.html.

Tests

• [http://cookbook.liftweb.net/Downloading and running Lift.html](http://cookbook.liftweb.net/Downloading and running Lift.html) should redirect to http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000030/ch01.html#_problem ultimately.

• http://cookbook.liftweb.net//#DownloadAndRun should redirect to the same page again.

And the following should all end up at the home page (http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000030/index.html):

• http://cookbook.liftweb.net
• http://cookbook.liftweb.net/wibble
• http://cookbook.liftweb.net/#wibble