Re: Idea: Travis-like testing of .htaccess?

Implemented.


See pull request for details:

https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/pull/59




On 18 November 2014 16:02, Stian Soiland-Reyes
<soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Had a quick go.. I seem to be onto something:
>
> https://travis-ci.org/stain/w3id.org/builds/41371490
>
> https://github.com/stain/w3id.org/blob/travis-checker/.travis.yml
>
>
> Just perfecting the logging now before pull requesting. As you see the
> above caught a 404.
>
>
> Here's an example catching 500:
>
> https://travis-ci.org/stain/w3id.org/builds/41372440
>
>
>
> It only tests the https://w3id.org/ URIs (but at http://localhost)
> that are in *.md  (perhaps README.* instead ? ) - so to get your URL
> tested, simply add it to the README.md as several have done already
> (mainly myself..).
>
> I use a sed-like approach to get out just the URIs - I tried using the
> https://github.com/jch/html-pipeline to generate the HTML for the
> markdowns, but it basically requires 30 dependencies which truly is a
> bit overkill :)
>
> I also added a description of this to the top-level README.md.
>
>
>
> In theory Travis will automatically test and comment any github pull request.
>
>
> On 17 November 2014 17:23, David I. Lehn <dil@lehn.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes
>> <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Do you think it is possible to have some kind of automatic testing or
>>> semi-automatic staging of a suggested .htaccess pull request? I'm kind
>>> of Travis-CI which can run tests on any pull request and then comment
>>> on the request with the test results.
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps it could be something as simple as
>>>
>>> cat $(find . -name README.md)  | grep https://w3id | sed s/cleverbithere//
>>>
>>> and then try each of those to see that it gets redirected correctly
>>> (and that the destination is not 404)?
>>>
>>
>> If this worked, it would be nice, but it seems complex and a bit of
>> overkill for just testing redir rules.  Adds overhead of having to add
>> test rules for what in most cases are simple redir rules.  Tests could
>> also return 404 even though the rules are correct.  Probably would
>> just want test system to test files related to new commits since old
>> rules may get stale and broken.  Patches are of course welcome if you
>> have an idea how how to do this. :-)
>>
>> -dave
>
>
>
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> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
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School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
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