HELP.md contains broken links to the Maven and Gradle plugin reference docs

[victorgawk]

When generating code from Spring initializr using project Gradle - Groovy, language Java and version 3.3.1, inside HELP.md file there is two invalid URLs resulting in 404 Not Found error:

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.3.1/gradle-plugin/reference/html/
• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.3.1/gradle-plugin/reference/html/#build-image

Error when opening these links in Google Chrome:

Code generation example: https://start.spring.io/#!type=gradle-project&language=java&platformVersion=3.3.1&packaging=jar&jvmVersion=21&groupId=com.example&artifactId=demo&name=demo&description=Demo%20project%20for%20Spring%20Boot&packageName=com.example.demo&dependencies=

[wilkinsona]

There's a similar problem with Maven builds where the HELP.md contains the following links:

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.3.1/maven-plugin/reference/htmlsingle/
• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/3.3.1/maven-plugin/reference/htmlsingle/#build-image

[rishiraj88]

@wilkinsona , @victorgawk ,

3 days back I cloned the spring-boot repo to my Windows workstation, but some filenames (filepaths) were too long for the OS to handle and clone those files.

I will try to clone relevant repositories with my Ubuntu VM this Friday evening.

Let's see if the main issue may be resolved quickly.

However, this was my observation over the issue at high level: Updated link for Gradle plugin documentation notes is this.

[wilkinsona]

@rishiraj88 this issue doesn't require changes to Spring Boot. It should be fixed by making changes in this repository. That said, in case you need to clone the Spring Boot repo in the future, please see https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Working-with-the-Code#cloning-the-git-repository-on-windows.

[philwebb]

The correct URLs are https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/maven-plugin/index.html and https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/gradle-plugin/index.html. We should fix the redirects.

[mhalbritter]

Superseded by https://github.com/spring-io/start.spring.io/pull/1541.