final tidying up (including redirects)

[jules32]

Hi @samanthacsik ,

Are there final tidying things we should be thinking about and do?

One thing is about the _redirects file, should we delete it since netlify.toml underlies the redirects? I also noticed that there's till an issue with trailing \s despite pages like code-of-conduct/ being included in the netlify.toml https://github.com/Openscapes/website-new/blob/main/netlify.toml#L23-L26

[samanthacsik]

@jules32 okay, I looked into this trailing / thing a bit more and this support guide -- [Support Guide] How can I alter trailing slash behaviour in my URLs? Will enabling Pretty URLs help? -- offers a lot of insight

Two takeaways:

"To start, redirects cannot be used to alter trailing slash behaviour 19"

"In summary, you’re probably not going to want to untick pretty URLs in our UI."

We had turned off pretty URLs when we were troubleshooting the initial deployment -- maybe that's causing our issue here?

EDIT: Also addressing your questions re: deleting the _redirects file -- yes, I think for the sake of keeping things clean, we should delete that!

[samanthacsik]

Re: other stuff to tidy:

• I'll address what Stef has detailed in Items from Stef's Jun26 post-launch review #45
• I haven't gotten to the Adding events wiki, which I'll fill out (though the process is the same as adding blog posts)
• any other wiki topics that might be helpful?

[jules32]

Thanks @samanthacsik ! I updated Netlify with pretty urls and that issue is resolved (/code-of-conduct/ with trailing slash turns into /code-of-conduct)

[jules32]

Thanks for tidying these other things Sam!

For the Wiki, could you add:

• adding redirects to netlify.toml (hopefully you can reuse a lot from your sleuthing issue!)

[jules32]

Just deleted _redirects file: f756629

[samanthacsik]

@jules32 finished up a Wiki on redirects as well as one on Adding events! Created one about blockquotes a few days ago as well. I think this covers most of the major pieces, but if you ever run into something that you want documented this way, please do let me know :)

[jules32]

Amazing, thank you so much Sam!!! Congratulations, such a beautiful and awesome website! 🌟