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Re: Web site Location (Was ANNOUNCE Development home page)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Web site Location (Was ANNOUNCE Development home page)
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:04:23AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Well,
> > I've been through this before. It is straight forward, the rules
> >that are needed are:
> >
> >* No relative references outside of the subdomain (ie, mailing list,
> >the mirrors page etc) all need to be http://www.cygwin.com/foo).
>
> I'd prefer just 'http://cygwin.com/', actually. Less typing. It's
> what I've tried to use consistently in the cygwin web pages.
>
> IMO, the 'www.' part of URLs is a redundant artificact.
Yes it is, but not everyone has that view... Noted for these pages :].
> >* Exception to the above - server files that are mapped into the
> >foo.cygwin.com namespace can be used (ie if you make a unix link at
> >xfree/htdocs/mirrors.html that takes us to the real mirrors.com
behind
> >the scenes.
>
> I tried this. There were too many supporting files required to make
> this feasible.
Not too surprising...
>
> >* Document all such exceptions clearly.
> > - If you want sub-dir access (www.cygwin.com/xfree) & sub domain
access
> >in parallel:
> >* No references to / are allowed in the site. Absolute or .. style
uri
> >paths ONLY.
> >- If you want only sub domain access:
> >* All mirror sites need to be explicitly informed of the sub domain.
> >Document this as well so people don't have an expectation that their
> >files will be mirrored.
> >* Try to remove sub-path aliases references once the sub domain is
> >running (remove references to http://www.cygwin.com/xfree - including
in
> >your mailing list archives :] ).
>
> Well, with luck xfree86.cygwin.com will continue to work.
sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> still works ok, so I think this is an achievable goal.
>
> Thanks for the guidelines. I'll keep then for future reference.
>
> cgf
>
No probs, happy to help.
Rob