Jack Tanner wrote: > Pavel Sanda <sanda <at> lyx.org> writes: > > > we want old links eg ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/ > > to remain working. > > This seems achievable by using ProFTPD as an FTP daemon and its mod_rewrite, > which is similar to the Apache httpd mod_rewrite. That is, if any old machine > (or virtual machine) can be assigned to be ftp.lyx.org, no matter that it has > little bandwidth and disk space, and if it runs ProFTPD with mod_rewrite, that > would be enough to redirect links like the one above to serve files from > Sourceforge.
sure. the current trouble is that we dont even have machine for proftpd server, secondly the guy having power over dns is notoriously unreachable. pavel
