[VELOCITY-723] URL of Velocity link on getting started page on the website needs to be changed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.2
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aruna Venkataraman
• Created: 29/May/09 07:21
• Updated: 01/Jun/09 06:03
• Resolved: 29/May/09 14:51

Description

Can we change the url of velocity link on http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/getting-started.html page?

This url will ultimately redirect the user to http://bluedogfan.com/wp-signup.php?new=mirrors page which is useless

Steps to reproduce this bug:
1. Go to http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/getting-started.html
2. Under downloading velocity section, click on Velocity link
3. http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi#engine is displayed
4. Click on velocity-1.6.2.zip under Binaries and sources section
5. http://bluedogfan.com/wp-signup.php?new=mirrors page is displayed with the message Registration has been disabled.

To fix this bug i have changed http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/engine/trunk/xdocs/docs/getting-started.xml code.

Under section dowloading velocity i have changed:
<a href="http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi#engine">Velocity</a>

to

<a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/velocity/engine">Velocity</a>

http://www.apache.org/dist/velocity/engine URL works. Please let me know your comments on this. Can i checkout and commit this patch?

Please find attached the modified getting-started.xml code. Also the steps to reproduce the issue has been attached in Gettting Started.doc

Regards,
Aruna