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

[Randy Kobes]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Please reply to address@hidden, which will reach
> Sylvain and me and everyone else concerned with savannah.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:49:11 +0100
> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> To: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads
>
> [...]
>
> It will be much easier for me to understand what to do if I can see
> the final configuration, which is probably the Apache configuration
> directives.
>
>
> For the Maxmind database, I current use the following set of
> instructions (which I use when installing AWstats with the geoip
> module):
>
>   aptitude install libgeo-ipfree-perl libgeoip1
>   
>   mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/local/share/GeoIP/
>   cat <<'EOF' > /etc/cron.d/maxmind
>   # Update Country/City IP-lookup databases from MaxMind
>   # TODO: use -o /dev/null, then use $? to check if the download was successful
>   0 3 10 * *      root    wget 
> http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz -O- | zcat > 
> /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
>   10 3 10 * *     root    wget 
> http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz -O- | zcat > 
> /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat
>   EOF
>   
>   # TODO: do this non-interactively
>   aptitude install build-essential
>   perl -MCPAN -e shell
>   # > install Geo::IP
>
>
> [...]

Hi all,
    For the Apache side of things, there's two set of directives I use, 
as I'm running a "vanilla" server on port 80 and a mod_perl-enabled 
server on port 8043. For the vanilla server, I have

<VirtualHost theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
        ServerAdmin address@hidden
        ServerName mirror.ctan.org
        ProxyPass / http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca:8043/ctan/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca:8043/ctan/
</VirtualHost>

while the mod_perl one has

<Location /ctan>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlSetVar GeoIPDBFile "/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat"
   PerlSetVar GeoIPMirror "/usr/local/share/GeoIP/ctan.txt"
   PerlSetVar GeoIPFlag Standard
   PerlSetVar GeoIPDefault us
   PerlResponseHandler Apache2::Geo::Mirror->auto_redirect
</Location>

I've attached a cron shell script that I use to update the database, 
which invokes the attached perl script - one would need to change the 
location to move the database file at the end of this script to reflect 
where you want it placed.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

--
best regards,
Randy

ctan.sh
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ctan.pl
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