Re: Web site Location (Was ANNOUNCE Development home page)

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

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).
* 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.
* 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 :] ).

note that running both sub domain and sub dir helps with mirroring.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: "'Cygx (E-mail) '" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Web site Location (Was ANNOUNCE Development home page)


> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 07:22:41AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Suhaib,
> >    I will do that. I was unaware that a decision had been made.
>
> If you could let me know of any problems you encounter, I'd appreciate
it.
> I'd like to make this as painless as possible for people.
>
> I'm thinking of setting up an "openssh.cygwin.com", etc. and I'd like
to
> know what pitfalls will arise from doing this.
>
> cgf
>