[MSITE-159] Absolute URI rendered as relative URI if absolute URI related to domain of POM URI

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3, 3.0
• Component/s: relative links
• Assignee: Lukas Theussl
• Reporter: Ted Husted
• Created: 12/Jul/06 09:56
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:15
• Resolved: 02/Mar/11 06:45

Description

Under site-beta5

if the POM references a URI like

<url>http://struts.apache.org</url>

absolute URLs used in the site.xml file are converted to relative references.

For example a reference to to "http://struts.apache.org/1.x" becomes "1.x", and a reference to
just "http://struts.apache.org" becomes an empty string.

If the documentation is being used offline, there are many cases when we want to refer people back to the website, to be sure the current information is used. The best use case is a download page that determines the mirror via CGI.

Another use case is referring to a sister site in the domain, that might refer to another version. If used locally, the other site might not be in the relative location.

Switching back to beta4 cures the behavior, and absolute URIs remain absolute, as expected.

Issue Links

• depends upon: DOXIASITETOOLS-46 Separate inheritance assembling and link resolution
• depends upon: MSHARED-189 DefaultSiteTool should not relativize links
• is duplicated by: DOXIASITETOOLS-55 It does not appear to be possible to create an absolute link to a parent URL in a banner
• is duplicated by: MSITE-254 Error when using an absolute URL in a menu item in site.xml
• is duplicated by: MSITE-269 Urls rewritten when they contain the project urls' hostname
• is duplicated by: MSITE-338 URLs in site.xml banner tags not rendered by site plugin if host not resolved by "nslookup"
• is duplicated by: MSITE-468 Absolute links item href's are stripped to become relative
• is duplicated by: MSITE-197 poweredBy Logo links don't work
• is duplicated by: MSITE-229 Links in site.xml get translated to ../../../
• is related to: MSITE-420 Parent project site descriptor menu options always a link back to parent site
• relates to: MSITE-659 'relativizeDecorationLinks' relativizes too much.
• relates to: MSITE-62 make absolute paths relative where possible