Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] redirecting download areas

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:58:47PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     This is trivial when one knows Apache, 
> 
> Sure.  I didn't really mean to suggest documenting how to write a
> redirect directive or whatever.
> 
> What isn't trivial is figuring out the recommended way to discover (let
> alone modify) the Apache config on savannah, given the plethora of
> vservers.  There are a lot of httpd.conf's on the server.
> 
> Searching for apache on the wiki turns up nothing useful.  Am I missing it?

Well that is part of what I assume the sysadmin can figure out.

Which gives:

- read infra/vservers.txt
- vserver-stat
CTX   PROC    VSZ    RSS  userTIME   sysTIME    UPTIME NAME
101     45 777.9M 274.4M   7d10h20   3d13h19  35d22h41 internal
102      4  10.8M   2.8M  13h35m55   1h34m52  35d01h27 accounts
103     29   2.7G   265M   8d19h01   1d14h30  35d22h41 frontend
104    119   1.2G 232.2M  31d08h38   8d13h25  35d22h41 vcs-noshell
105     91   892M 127.7M  15h02m16   3h02m09  35d22h41 sftp
106      3   7.2M   2.3M  45m30s71  17m55s64  35d22h41 builder
- "ok, this is most probably 'sftp', as it's a SFTP-based access"
- vserver sftp enter
- ls /etc/apache2/sites-available/  # standard Debian layout
arch audio-video bzr default download
- "ok, this can only be 'download'"
- emacs /etc/apache2/sites-available/download

So this is self-documented and avoids a documentation maintenance
burden.

>     and this isn't safe to be done if one doesn't.
> 
> Well, it could have been done with an http-equiv refresh file instead of
> in the Apache config.  (Not that I'm arguing it should have been.)

Though http-equiv will only work for the directory index.

-- 
Sylvain