https://www.nemunai.re/tags/golang/ Recent content in Golang on nemunaire's blog Hugo en blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:44:00 +0000 https://www.nemunai.re/post/vanity-url-go-import-nginx/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:44:00 +0000blog@nemunai.re (nemunaire) https://www.nemunai.re/post/vanity-url-go-import-nginx/ <p>When publishing Go code, the usual practice is to distribute the sources directly from the forge that hosts them: <code>github.com/org/project</code>, <code>framagit.org/org/project</code>, and so on. It is convenient, but it durably ties the import path to the chosen provider. The day you migrate from one forge to another, all your users have to update their imports, and every historical fork keeps pointing at the old address.</p> <p>Fortunately, the <a href="https://go.dev/ref/mod#vcs-find"><code>go-import</code></a> mechanism lets you decouple the import path from the actual hosting location of the code. All it takes is exposing, on a domain of your choosing, an HTML page containing a <code>&lt;meta name=&quot;go-import&quot;&gt;</code> tag that describes where the sources live.</p>