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If I have a filesystem soft-link, e.g. "foo.mdwn" links to "bar.mdwn", it doesn't work.
The page "foo/" does not exist.

This is too bad, because sometimes it is convenient to have several different names for the same page.

Could softlinks be handled gracefully by ikiwiki?

> Soft links are explicitly not handled by IkiWiki as a [[security]] measure.  If you want several names for
> the same page, I suggest using the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive to make one page redirect to
> another.  -- [[Will]]

>> Will is right. I don't plan to support symlinks. [[done]] --[[Joey]]

>> With the appropriate template, inline can also help copy pages around [[DavidBremner]]