how to get rid of duplicate names in URLs

[dreh23]

From @mrchristian on May 31, 2015 21:7

hi

currently URLs have duplicate names in URLs

docs/book_liberation_manifesto/Book_Liberation_Manifesto.html

either we rename HTML files index.html or we have serving remove directory name above

S

Copied from original issue: hybrid-publishing-lab/hybrid-publishing-research#31

[dreh23]

This is more complicated than I anticipated. I got a something running with grunt-contrib-rewrite, but it's more complicated. The example below kind of works. But I can't get the regexp working so we need an entry for every article. Kind of ugly:

  string = "/docs/one_of_the_resources/one-of-the-resources.html";
  console.log(string.match(/\/[^/]+$/)[0]);
  // => one-of-the-resources.html

And the Gruntfile would look like this:

    var rewriteRulesSnippet = require('grunt-connect-rewrite/lib/utils').rewriteRequest;
    .....
    connect: {

        rules: [
            {from: '/documentation.html', to: '/docs/documentation/documentation.html'}
        ],
        server: {
            options: {
                port: port,
                base: './dist',
                livereload: 35005,
                open: true,
                middleware: function (connect, options) {
                    var middlewares = [];

                    // RewriteRules support 
                    middlewares.push(rewriteRulesSnippet);

                    if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
                        options.base = [options.base];
                    }

                    var directory = options.directory || options.base[options.base.length - 1];
                    options.base.forEach(function (base) {
                        // Serve static files. 
                        middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
                    });

                    // Make directory browse-able. 
                    //middlewares.push(connect.directory(directory));

                    return middlewares;
                }
            }
        }
    },
    ....
    jshint: {
            globals: {
                ....
                require: false,
                ....
            }
        },
    ....
    grunt.registerTask( 'serve', [ 'configureRewriteRules', 'connect:server', 'watch'] );

I would like to postpone this to another milestone.