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www/server mirror.html
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From: |
Joakim Olsson |
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Subject: |
www/server mirror.html |
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Date: |
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:56:18 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Joakim Olsson <jocke> 07/03/25 12:56:18
Modified files:
server : mirror.html
Log message:
Fixed invalid HTML.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/mirror.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.45&r2=1.46
Patches:
Index: mirror.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/mirror.html,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -b -r1.45 -r1.46
--- mirror.html 15 Mar 2007 23:09:40 -0000 1.45
+++ mirror.html 25 Mar 2007 12:56:03 -0000 1.46
@@ -1,101 +1,115 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<title>Advice for Running Mirrors - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
(FSF)</title>
-<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<h2>Advice for Running Mirrors</h2>
+ <title>Advice for Running Mirrors - GNU Project - Free Software
+ Foundation (FSF)</title>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<h3>Mirroring the GNU FTP Server</h3>
+ <h2>Advice for Running Mirrors</h2>
-<p>Mirroring the GNU FTP server requires approximately 40GB disk space
-(as of 04 January 2007), which is distributed by the following way:</p>
+ <h3>Mirroring the GNU FTP Server</h3>
-<pre>
+ <p>Mirroring the GNU FTP server requires approximately 40GB
+ disk space (as of 04 January 2007), which is distributed by
+ the following way:</p>
+ <pre>
<tt> /gnu: 12G </tt>
<tt> /non-gnu: 300M </tt>
<tt> /old-gnu: 700M </tt>
<tt> /gnu+linux-distros: 27G </tt>
</pre>
-<p>Due to resource and security concerns, we no longer offer direct
-rsync or FTP service to update mirrors. If you would like to use rsync
-(which is advisable) or FTP, there are at least two reliable third party
-sites, ibiblio.org and ftp.funet.fi, that offer access to the
-ftp.gnu.org contents. They update directly from us on a regular basis
-and you may access them with:</p>
+ <p>Due to resource and security concerns, we no longer
+ offer direct rsync or FTP service to update mirrors. If you
+ would like to use rsync (which is advisable) or FTP, there
+ are at least two reliable third party sites, ibiblio.org
+ and ftp.funet.fi, that offer access to the ftp.gnu.org
+ contents. They update directly from us on a regular basis
+ and you may access them with:</p>
-<ul>
+ <ul>
<li><tt>rsync://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/ftp/</tt></li>
- <li><tt>ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/ftp/</tt></li>
-</ul>
-<p>and</p>
+ <li>
+ <tt>ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/ftp/</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>and</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+
<tt>rsync://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</tt></li>
+
+ <li>
+ <tt>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>If your site can also offer general rsync access for
+ mirroring, please <a href=
+ "mailto:address@hidden";>contact us</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We regret that we do not have adequate resources to
+ assist mirrors in updating directly from us. Please update
+ from one of the sites above. But if you insist on trying
+ anyway, you can try using <a href="/software/wget/">GNU
+ Wget</a> (or another free software ftp fetching utility) to
+ retrieve ftp://ftp.gnu.org.</p>
+
+ <h3><a id="Ibiblio" name="Ibiblio">Tips on Updating Your
+ GNU FTP Mirror from Ibiblio</a></h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>They recommend using -rltp for mirroring content from
+ ftp.ibiblio.org via rsync. Using -x tends to cause
+ client-side problems because they disable compression on
+ their end.</li>
+
+ <li>For mirror admins, ibiblio-mirrors is a low-traffic
+ email list for sites that mirror content from ibiblio
+ servers. Here's a link to the mailman list page: <a href=
+ "http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors";>
+ http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors</a></li>
+
+ <li>Specific questions and problem reports can be sent
+ to: help-at-ibiblio-dot-org.</li>
+ </ul>
-<ul>
- <li><tt>rsync://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</tt></li>
- <li><tt>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/</tt></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>If your site can also offer general rsync access for mirroring,
-please <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>contact us</a>.
-
-<p>We regret that we do not have adequate resources to assist mirrors in
-updating directly from us. Please update from one of the sites above.
-But if you insist on trying anyway, you can try using <a
-href="/software/wget/">GNU Wget</a> (or another free software ftp
-fetching utility) to retrieve ftp://ftp.gnu.org.</p>
-
-
-<h4><a id="Ibiblio">Tips on Updating Your GNU FTP Mirror from
-Ibiblio</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li>They recommend using -rltp for mirroring content from ftp.ibiblio.org
- via rsync. Using -x tends to cause client-side problems because they
- disable compression on their end.
- </li>
- <li>For mirror admins, ibiblio-mirrors is a low-traffic email list for
- sites that mirror content from ibiblio servers. Here's a link to the
- mailman list page:
- <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors";>
- http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors</a>
- </li>
- <li>Specific questions and problem reports can be sent to:
help-at-ibiblio-dot-org.
- </li>
-</ul>
+ <h3>Mirroring the GNU Alpha FTP Server</h3>
+ <p>ibiblio and funet also offer a copies of alpha.gnu.org
+ for your mirroring pleasure:</p>
-<h3>Mirroring the GNU Alpha FTP Server</h3>
-
-<p>ibiblio and funet also offer a copies of alpha.gnu.org for your
-mirroring pleasure:
-
-<ul>
+ <ul>
<li><tt>rsync://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/alpha/</tt></li>
- <li><tt>ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/</tt></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>and</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><tt>rsync://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/</tt></li>
- <li><tt>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/</tt></li>
-</ul>
-
-
-
-<h3>Mirroring the GNU Web Server</h3>
-
-<p>We no longer recommend creating web mirrors, because it has turned
-out that (a) few users can actually make use of them, and
-(b) most mirrors either became out of date or went offline
-relatively frequently. We don't want outdated information about the GNU
-project to be disseminated.</p>
-
-<p>Nonetheless, if you wish to mirror www.gnu.org for your own purposes,
-that is ok with us. We recommend using mod_proxy. Here is an
-<i>unsupported</i> recipe of Apache directives for your
-<tt><VirtualHost></tt>:</p>
-<pre>
+ <li>
+ <tt>ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>and</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <tt>rsync://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/</tt></li>
+
+ <li>
+ <tt>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/</tt></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Mirroring the GNU Web Server</h3>
+
+ <p>We no longer recommend creating web mirrors, because it
+ has turned out that (a) few users can actually make
+ use of them, and (b) most mirrors either became out of
+ date or went offline relatively frequently. We don't want
+ outdated information about the GNU project to be
+ disseminated.</p>
+
+ <p>Nonetheless, if you wish to mirror www.gnu.org for your
+ own purposes, that is ok with us. We recommend using
+ mod_proxy. Here is an <i>unsupported</i> recipe of Apache
+ directives for your <tt><VirtualHost></tt>:</p>
+ <pre>
ServerName gnumirror.example.org
CacheRoot "/var/cache/mod_proxy"
CacheDefaultExpire 86400 # for Apache 2.0+, value is in seconds
@@ -103,76 +117,73 @@
CacheEnable disk /
</pre>
-<p>Thanks to Juri Hoerner for providing this Apache information.</p>
+ <p>Thanks to Juri Hoerner for providing this Apache
+ information.</p>
+ <!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
-->
+ <!-- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about
-->
+ <!-- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking
-->
+ <!-- with the webmasters first. -->
+ <!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
document -->
+ <!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
+ </div>
-<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general, -->
-<!-- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
-<!-- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking -->
-<!-- with the webmasters first. -->
-<!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document -->
-<!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
-</div>
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
-<p>
-Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
-the FSF.
-<br />
-Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
-<!-- If you are a project maintainer or developer, please use -->
-<!-- your own email, as webmasters does not manage most -->
-<!-- project webpages (those that we do, you know who you are). -->
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Please see the
-<a href="/server/standards/README.translations">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
-translations of this article.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.,
-<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address></p>
-<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
-permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
-notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Updated:
-<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/03/15 23:09:40 $
-<!-- timestamp end -->
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<div id="translations">
-<h3>Translations of this page:</h3>
-
-<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
-<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. DE is Deutsch.-->
-<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
-<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
-<!-- - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
-<!-- - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
-<!-- - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
-<!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
-<!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
-<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus -->
-<!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
-<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
-
-<ul>
-<!-- English -->
-<li><a href="/server/mirror.html">English</a> [en]</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
+ <div id="footer">
+ <p>Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href=
+ "mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>. There are also
+ <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF.<br />
+ Please send broken links and other corrections (or
+ suggestions) to
+ <!-- If you are a project maintainer or developer, please use -->
+ <!-- your own email, as webmasters does not manage most -->
+ <!-- project webpages (those that we do, you know who you are). -->
+ <a href=
+ "mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Please see the <a href=
+ "/server/standards/README.translations">Translations
+ README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+ translations of this article.</p>
+
+ <p>Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 Free
+ Software Foundation, Inc.,</p>
+
+ <address>
+ 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
+ </address>
+
+ <p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article
+ are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium,
+ provided this notice, and the copyright notice, are
+ preserved.</p>
+
+ <p>Updated: <!-- timestamp start -->
+ $Date: 2007/03/25 12:56:03 $ <!-- timestamp end --></p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div id="translations">
+ <h3>Translations of this page:</h3>
+ <!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
+ <!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. DE is Deutsch.-->
+ <!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
+ <!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+ <!-- - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+ <!-- - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+ <!-- - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+ <!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
+ <!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+ <!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus
-->
+ <!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
+ <!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
+
+ <ul>
+ <!-- English -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/server/mirror.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
</body>
</html>