Re: Perlmonks homenodes not linking on search cpan

[cfreak]

I agree this is a CPAN problem, however it would be kind of cool to link homenodes with their names. Something like: http://perlmonks.org/~cfreak would link to my home node. I believe that Slashdot does something similar. I don't know much about the code that runs this site but I can't see that being too much overhead. Someone set me straight if I'm wrong.

[simonm]

The PerlMonks codebase already does something like this using path info, although the index.pl is not optional: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/jacques.

In theory, it should be easy to add an ErrorDocument direective to the PerlMonks httpd.conf that handles all 404 errors by sending them to index.pl, which would allow node names to be used as addresses, without writing the "index.pl/".

Update: You can also use node IDs the same way: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/223311