Redirecting stuff

Had /dtb/days/day122.md-type posts, the older ones, and /dtb/days/1234-1234-my-title.md-type newer posts. They lived both in the same directory on disk, /content/dtb/days/.... The latter were converted from Obsidian, which meant (among other things) that deleting a page in Obsidian wouldn’t automatically delete the corresponding converted one in Hugo, and I couldn’t just rm -rf ..../days before each conversion because that would delete the older day234.md posts.

I wanted to put them in different folders on disk in ./content/, but keep the url structure serhii.net/dtb/post-name/ for both of them.

Solution was making all /dtb posts (incl. pages) use the section (dtb) in the permalink in config.yaml:

permalinks:
    dtb: '/:section/:filename'

Now they do, regardless of their location on disk.

Then I moved the old posts into ./content/dtb/old_days, kept the new ones in ./content/dtb/days

Lastly, this removes all converted posts (= all .mds except _index.md) before conversion so that no stray markdown posts are left:

find $OLD_DAYS | grep -v _index.md | xargs  rm 

Unsolved problems

Google still has serhii.net/dtb/days/... pages cached, and currently they’re available both from there and from /dtb/.... I can’t find a way to redirect all of the /dtb/days/... to /dtb/... except manually adding stuff to the frontmatter of each. I have scripts for that, but still ugly.

.htaccess is our friend.

" RewriteRule ^d/dtb(.*)$ /dtb$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^dtb/days(.*)$ /dtb$1 [R=301,NC,L]

This is getting more and more bloated.

Generally, I see absolutely no reason not to rewrite this mess of build scripts in Python. obyde is a Python package, handling settings, file operations etc. is more intuitive to me in Python.

Instead I keep re-learning bash/zsh escape syntax every time, and I’m procrastinating doing error handling for the same reasons.

The only non-native thing would be rsync and git, which can be handled through a subprocess.