[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #249111] project.nongnu.org webpages

[Justin Baugh via RT]

> [beuc - Tue Aug 09 19:27:53 2005]:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We can offer the Savannah users some fancy projectname.nongnu.org
> webpage URL for free with some slight configuration. I did it on a
> test install, here's how this works:
> 
> 
> - In my Apache <VirtualHost *>:
> 
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}              ^[^.]+\.nongnu\.org$
> RewriteRule ^(.+)                     %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [chain]
> RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.nongnu\.org(.*) /path/2/nongnu/$1$2
> 
> (cf. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html, "Virtual
> User Hosts")
> 
> 
> - In the bind configuration:
> 
> *.nongnu.org        IN      A       199.232.41.10
> 
> (domain name part to adapt)
> 
> 
> Does this sound reasonable to you?

I have to admit to not being a fan of wildcard DNS entries. How about
regularly regenerating a zone file based on a project list? 

The idea itself is reasonable, and is probably a useful service to
provide to Savannah users.

-Justin

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Justin Baugh (baughj at gnu dot org)
Systems Administrator
Free Software Foundation