Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Us over in infrastructure noticed something different about http://directory.apache.org/ this morning. Well, first thing was, that it was down. (And people noticed, and told us!)
But when we looked into it, we thought it was pretty odd, since eos (the T2000 that all of the main websites are currently hosted on) was doing fine, and all the other TLP sites seemed up. What we found was a cute series of RewriteRules in the main directory.apache.org .htaccess file: $ cat /x1/www/directory.apache.org/.htaccess .... RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cwiki.apache.org/DIRxSITE/$1 [P,L] So, most of the content on directory.apache.org is being proxied to cwiki.apache.org aka brutus.apache.org. >From an infrastructure perspective, this creates an unacceptable dependency between services. brutus.apache.org (and CWiki) will go down. They just aren't setup to be redundant right now. In comparison, the (static) content under /x1/www is mirrored to multiple machines in multiple data centers, and in the case of a failure we can quickly (and relatively painlessly) switch it to another machine. The preferred method is to export the static files from brutus, onto people.apache.org, into your /x1/www/directory.apache.org/ directory. Many other TLPs do this via a crontab on people.apache.org. If you need help setting this up, we would be happy to help get you started. Thanks, -Paul
