As stated in Item910, Dakar has lost Cairo's $dispViewPath configuration item (described as "URL path to view script used to render links, relative to $dispScriptUrlPath="), which used to allow several documented short-URLs setups to offer nice URLs that don't include the =view word.

This configuration variable was made available to templates : %VIEWPATH%.

Nevertheless, Cairo's PatternSkin templates did not use this $dispViewPath variable, but hardcoded URLs including the view word, such as https://mail.twiki.org/do/view/Bugs/Item911. That for, several documented short-URLs setups, such as boum's one, needed to patch these templates to fix this.

This has not changed in Dakar, which is quite logical since $dispViewPath configuration item has vanished.

But... Martin Cleaver asked me to package boum's short-URLs setup as a contrib alongside Dakar, which is impossible with current Dakar code due to Item910 and to this bug.

What needs to be done is :

• reintroduce the $dispViewPath configuration item and the %VIEWPATH% template variable ;
• run a simple find templates -name '*.tmpl' -exec perl -pi -e 's,/view,%VIEWPATH%,g' {} \; on the templates directory in order to use this configurable variable instead of hardcoding stuff.

This topic has been discussed on TWiki:Codev/ShorterURLs.

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This was fixed with the introduction of {ScriptUrlPaths} in LocalSite.cfg. Discarding. CC

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Not really. The introduction of {ScriptUrlPaths} was welcome, and has brought the ability not to hard-code https://mail.twiki.org/do/script in templates, but rather to use https://mail.twiki.org/do/script. Great.

But in yesterday's svn (7687), there are still some templates, such as twiki.pattern.tmpl, rdiff.pattern.tmpl, view.pattern.tmpl, that still hard-code old constructions, such as /do/view.

That's why I'm re-openning this bug, since the problem I detected for shorter-urls setups is still alive.

-- Main.BenVoui

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It appears that Arthur reverted most, if not all, of the fixes I made in SVN 7429, converting %SCRIPTURL% and %SCRIPTURLPATH% to %SCRIPTURL{"..."}% in the templates. Arthur, why?

CC

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If something was reverted this was not the intention. It must have happened when I reverted the new style (gray borders) back, and I must have missed the view update.

Fixed in SVN 7718.

AC

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Great, but there are still a few in view.pattern.tmpl and twiki.pattern.tmpl. -- BenVoui

Last few removed in SVN 7768

CC