On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, sebb wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:22:12 +0100
From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
To: general@attic.apache.org
Subject: Redirects for attic project download directories
The original thread got derailed, so here is what I think the issue is.
When a project is moved to the attic, its website is updated to show a
banner that the project has been retired, with a link to the attic.
Also, its release files on www.apache.org/dist are removed, and
replaced with an .htaccess redirect to an Attic page with summary
details of the project.
e.g.
http://www.apache.org/dist/harmony
redirects to
http://attic.apache.org/projects/harmony.html
Whilst this redirect works, and is simple to administer, it means
there are many directories under www.apache.org/dist/ which only
contain an .htaccess file, and scripts may have to be aware of which
directories correspond to active projects.
It would be useful to be able to tidy this up.
Agree ; that's a good summary.
However it is important that the redirects are kept as there are
likely to be links to the download location in lots of places. We
should not break URLs unnecessarily.
Note that the redirects also work on mirror links as well as on the ASF hosts.
This behaviour should be preserved as historical links will generally
use the dynamic mirror system.
For example the harmony download page [1] points to the mirrors;
externally preserved links are likely to do so as well.
Removing the .htaccess files and their parent directories will break
all the links, so IMO that is not an option.
[ humbedooh == Daniel Gruno ; infra ; initial(?) author of closer.lua
; closer.lua == the script that projects use on their (download)
pages to link to "the mirrors"
; GHOST == a retire project ; ASF GHOSTs live in the Attic :-)
]
Links to mirrors are typically generated by closer.lua ;
we can make closer.lua attic-aware (says humbedooh :-).
When closer.lua encounters a target in an atticked project,
it can redirect to attic.a.o.
Are there any important links to specific files on specific mirrors ?
That leaves "www.apache.org/dist/GHOST".
It would be easy (again, says humbedooh) to configure www.apache.org
with a few (fixed number of) Rewrite rules like (pseudo-code) :
# redirect dist/GHOST to attic.a.o/.../GHOST.hmtl
<Directory dist>
RewriteCondition "file path in an atticked dir"
RewriteRule .* "Redirect to attic.a.o"
</Directory>
Now, suppose we create dist/attic/ghosts/
https:// dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/attic/ghosts/
-- on retirement, infra svn moves dist/GHOST/ to dist/attic/ghosts/ ;
Pmc Attic can cleanup what was formerly dist/GHOST/
-- closer.lua can check the presence of dist/attic/ghosts/PROJ
-- the RewriteRules idem
I think this would tidy up /dist/ while keeping the proper Redirects.
[1] http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi
Regards,
Henk Penning
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