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@@ -50,3 +50,36 @@ directory, rather than the site's index page!
 >> something else as extensions (Polish, `.pl`, is the usual example,
 >> since many sites interpret `.pl` as "this is a (Perl) CGI").
 >> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> There is something to be said about "index/foo" being really ugly
+>>> and perhaps it would be nice to use something else. There does not
+>>> appear to even be one function that could be changed; "$page/foo" is
+>>> hardwired into ikiwiki in many places as a place to dump subsidiary
+>>> content -- and it's not even consistent, since there is also eg,
+>>> "$page.rss". I agree, approaching it from this direction would be a
+>>> mess or a lot of work.
+>>>
+>>> Type maps seem like a valid option, but also a lot of clutter.
+>>> 
+>>> `index.html.pl` does seem to be asking for trouble, even if apache
+>>> can be configured to DTRT. It would make serving actual up perl scripts
+>>> hard, at least. But that is some good out of the box thinking.. 
+>>> perhaps "index.foo.pl.html"?
+>>>
+>>> However, that would mean that 
+>>> web servers need to be configured differently to serve translated
+>>> and non-translated sites. The current apache configuration for po
+>>> can be used with non-po sites and they still work. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> I am vulnerable to the same problem because I use MultiViews, though I don't use the `po` module;
+>>>> I have to serve both Australian English and American English for my company's website
+>>>> (for SEO purposes; certain words that relate to our products are spelt differently in US and Australian English, and we need to be able to be googled with both spellings).
+>>>> I'm just fortunate that nobody has thought to add attachments to the front page yet.
+>>>> I raise this to point out that this is going to be a recurring problem that won't necessarily be fixed by changing the `po` module in isolation.
+>>>>
+>>>> One could argue that "index" is already a special case, since it is the top page of the site.
+>>>> Things like parentlinks already use a special case for the top page (checking the variable HAS_PARENTLINKS).
+>>>> Likewise, when --usedirs is true, index is treated as a special case, since it generates "index.html" and not "index/index.html".
+>>>>
+>>>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the best approach to solving this would be.
+>>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]