Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: autoredirect setup help

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:27:47PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
>     I've configured mirmon and we now this ready:
>     http://download.savannah.gnu.org/mirmon/
> 
> Very nice!  Thanks for doing all the work.  I'm surprised there are only
> two dead mirrors.  I'll write to those admins.
> 
>     What kind of official URL should we use for it?
> 
> I'm tempted to suggest http://ftpmirror.nongnu.org, by analogy with the
> http://ftpmirror.gnu.org which we have for the mirrors of ftp.gnu.org.
> (I know a few GNU packages use their download area, but I'm not sure
> if those are getting mirrored, and in any case it's nothing we're
> especially recommending.)
> 
> Other names that come to mind seem awfully long, e.g.,
> downloadmirror.savannah.gnu.org.  Other ideas?
> 
>     I think we could use it by default for the Savannah projects pages.
> 
> My experience with the multiplexing (for TeX) is that it is useful to
> use the generic multiplexing url for downloading by default, but it's
> also important to point to the mirmon page so people can see the
> choices and their status, and the mirror list page for those who can use
> rsync.

I adapted Randy's script to only use up-to-date mirrors for the
multiplexer (i.e. don't use bigsearcher's here).

Randy: do we need to restart Apache2 when 'ctan.txt' changes?


Karl, about the URL, what do you think of this:

- we set http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ as the multiplexer
  URL

- we document another URL
  (e.g. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/) for
  when people want to check the canonical location

-- 
Sylvain