MySQL Bugs: #21603: All links need to be updated when docs are referenced

Bug #21603	All links need to be updated when docs are referenced
Submitted:	12 Aug 2006 14:36	Modified:	29 Jul 2008 13:20
Reporter:	Jeff C	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	All	OS:	Any (All)
Assigned to:	MC Brown	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The source needs to be scanned for all "dev.mysql.com" links and update them to lower case.

Any references to dev.mysql.com with caps in them will generate a Page Not Found.

Example : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html (Page Not Found)
Works   : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/crashing.html 

./sql/mysqld.cc:2095:The manual page at ttp://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains\n\
./innobase/fil/fil0fil.c:2690:" http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/InnoDB_troubleshooting_datadict.html\n"
....

How to repeat:
n/a

It's not quite as simple as lowercasing the page filenames. In most but not all cases, lowercasing and converting underscores to dashes will take care of the problem. However, this isn't true in *all* cases; for this reason, developers please check with Docs before making changes. Thanks!

The easiest would probably be to add rewrite rules for our webservers according to those patterns.

The server sources should have already been fixed. 

For the existing sources, we have now setup a forwarding system that should capture the old URLs and forward them on to a more appropriate current page in the current 5.1 reference manual.