Me and the maintainers of `config.sub` and `config.guess` (cc:ed) are trying to set up some HTTP redirects so that when config.guess fails it can print out a long-term stable URL for a newer version of itself, instead of a URL that involves specifics of the VCS-to-web bridge for the project, which have changed in the past and probably will again in the future. We've run into a problem and need some advice on how to fix it.
In words, the redirects we want are: https://www.gnu.org/software/config/config.guess -> concrete URL for the latest version of config.guess, currently https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess https://www.gnu.org/software/config/config.sub -> concrete URL for the latest version of config.sub, currently https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub https://www.gnu.org/software/config/ -> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config https://www.gnu.org/software/config/index.html -> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config All other URLs beginning with https://www.gnu.org/software/config/ should return a 404 error. We thought this .htaccess configuration would do what we want: Redirect 307 /software/config/config.guess https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess Redirect 307 /software/config/config.sub https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub Redirect 307 /software/config/index.html https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config Redirect 307 /software/config/ https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config But we found that this actually redirects *all* URLs beginning with <https://www.gnu.org/software/config/> to <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config>, including <https://www.gnu.org/software/config/config.guess>, <https://www.gnu.org/software/config/config.sub>, and <https://www.gnu.org/software/config/nonexistent>. Removing the last line of the .htaccess (the one beginning "Redirect 307 /software/config/ ") did not change the behavior. Can you tell us what we need to put in .htaccess to get the redirects we want? Thanks, zw
