[web-team] Feedback from SVLUG Web site - numerous Broken Links

[Rick Moen]

Quoting leelwilcox at aol.com (leelwilcox at aol.com):

> Dear Webmaster, the following links on the SVLUG home page are broken:?

Hey, Lee, thanks for taking the trouble.

> Talk slides: Alison Randal's June 2009?slides: The Parrot Virtual Machine??? (slides> 404)

This was an actual, genuine error locally in our own URL.  Link as
stated was http://www.svlug.org/prev/2009jul/parrot_arch.pdf , but
should have been  http://www.svlug.org/prev/2009jun/parrot_arch.pdf .
Fixed.


> Talk slides: Alex Honor's May 2008?slides:?CTL dispatcher.?????????????????????????? (CTL dispatcher > 404)

You're referring not to the slides, here, but rather the link to Alex's
"CTL" pages at ControlTier, Inc. -- which have, since May 2008,
vanished.  You know, it's really pathetic how many allegedly competent
commercial firms break links to their advertised pages _all the time_ 
by re-organising Web sites and not bothering to forward from the old
URLs to the new ones.  It's not difficult to get this right, but it
seems as if the highly paid firms can't be bothered, and it's only the 
amateur webmasters who do.  Ironic, eh?

Anyway, after some searching, I've found what appears to be a reasonable
substitute for the now-vanished ControlTier page:
http://open.controltier.org/wiki/CTL

> Talk slides: Dirk Morris's Nov. 2007?slides:?Untangle appliance(10MB PPT).?(slides> 403) 

Oops, permissions error.  That's because:

rick at gruyere:~/www$ cd prev
rick at gruyere:~/www/prev$ ls -al
total 72
drwxrwxr-x 18 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  4 21:42 .
drwsrwsr-x 13 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 30 02:01 ..
drwxrwxr-x  6 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 22 12:12 .svn
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1997nov
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1998apr
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1999sep
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2000feb
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2002oct
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2004jul
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005jun
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005nov
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005oct
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2006apr
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2006dec
drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Mar 18  2009 2007nov
drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Mar 18  2009 2008may
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Apr  2  2009 2009apr
drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Jun  4 21:42 2009jun


Which I fixed by doing:

rick at gruyere:~/www/prev$ sudo chown -R www-data.www-data *

Works, now.  Thanks again.