Hi Joe,

It turns out that these /servlet urls fail on the existing www.openoffice.org. 
Nothing to do here.

Regards,
Dave


On Dec 22, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
> 
> One more try. I may have been somewhat dense earlier today.
> 
> On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> I'm not talking about what www.openoffice.org does now, but what it will do 
>> when it serves up ooo-site.apach.org.  Isn't that the plan?
> 
> The plan is twofold.
> 
> (1) For ooo-site.apache.org to do what www.openoffice.org does now with 
> exceptions - it doesn't do servlets and logins related to individual 
> openoffice.org accounts.
> 
> (2) For openoffice.org to continue to do what it does now.
> 
> 
>> 
>> I know that what www.openoffice.org does now.
> 
> What http://www.openoffice.org/projects/www/lists does now is return Kenai's 
> version of a 404. ooo-site does the same. We don't need to redirect that url.
> 
> We should be redirecting /servlets/* in ooo-site, it is not a one-to-one map 
> to openoffice.org/projects/<project>/lists.
> 
> The servlet urls look like this.
> 
> contact.html:24:    <a href="/nonav/servlets/HelpTOC">Get Help</a> 
> section.</li>
> mail_list.html:91:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=users">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:102:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=announce">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:119:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=discuss">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:131:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=social">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:155:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=dev">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:165:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=allfeatures">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:175:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=allcvs">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:185:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=allbugs">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:194:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=allhg">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:195:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=allhg">Browse archives</a></td>
> mail_list.html:205:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=interface-announce">Search</a></td>
> mail_list.html:216:      <td class="alt6"><a 
> href="/servlets/SearchList?listName=interface-discuss">Search</a></td>
> project_tools.html:3:    <div><a href="/servlets/ProjectHome">Project 
> home</a></div>
> project_tools.html:4:    <div><a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectMemberList">Membership</a></div>
> project_tools.html:7:    <div><a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectNewsList">Announcements</a></div>  
> project_tools.html:8:    <div>   <a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">Mailing lists</a> </div>
> project_tools.html:11:    <div><a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectDocumentList">Documents &amp; files</a></div>
> project_tools.html:15:    <div><a href="/servlets/ProjectIssues">Issue 
> tracker</a></div>
> index.html:190:                                       <li class="doc_tip" 
> id="join" onmouseover="showtip(this.id)" onmouseout="hidetip()"><a 
> href="http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMembershipRequest";>Join the 
> project</a></li>
> index.html:191:                                       <li class="doc_tip" 
> id="mailinglists" onmouseover="showtip(this.id)" onmouseout="hidetip()"><a 
> href="http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList";>Mailing 
> Lists</a></li>
> index.html:310:                                       <li  class="doc_tip" 
> id="searchproj" onmouseover="showtip(this.id)" onmouseout="hidetip()"><a 
> href="http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/Search?resultsPerPage=40&amp;scope=project";>Search
>  the project data</a></li>
> listrules.html:82:http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList
> listrules.html:151:http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join
> project_tools.html:3:  <div> <a href="/servlets/ProjectHome">Project home</a> 
> </div>
> project_tools.html:4:  <div> <a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectMemberList">Membership</a> </div>
> project_tools.html:7:  <div> <a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectNewsList">Announcements</a> </div>
> project_tools.html:8:  <div> <a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">Mailing lists</a> </div>
> project_tools.html:11:  <div> <a 
> href="/servlets/ProjectDocumentList">Documents &amp; files</a> </div>
> project_tools.html:16:  <div> <a href="/servlets/ProjectIssues">Issue 
> tracker</a> </div>
> 
> If someone would explain how to map these to functions on 
> openoffice.org/projects/ we can make the changes to the ooo-site hrefs with 
> redirects if needed.
> 
> Is this better?
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> 
>> The only speculation I *had* to make is that ooo-site.apache.org is going to 
>> be served up as www.openoffice.org, since it hasn't happened yet.
>> 
>> I know you are frustrated about this.  I am too.  A common set of tacit 
>> understandings is missing.  And getting to an explicit understandings seems 
>> to be beyond our reach.  Sorry.  
>> 
>> - Dennis
>> 
>> PS: Showing me curl responses for 404s and 302s doesn't help.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 13:28
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!
>> 
>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>>> All I know is that 
>>> 
>>> http://openoffice.org/projects/FOO/lists/ have important content related to 
>>> the lists that are still operating.
>> 
>>> 
>>> http://ooo-site.apache.org/projects/FOO/lists/ 404.
>>> 
>>> That's not a speculation.
>> 
>> Go to http://www.openoffice.org/projects/www/lists and tell me what you get.
>> 
>> wave@minotaur:~$ curl http://www.openoffice.org/projects/www/lists
>> 
>> 
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
>> <head>
>> 
>> .... 
>> 
>> <div class="contentPadding">
>> <h2 class="pageTitle">Not Found</h2>
>> <!-- This file lives in public/404.html -->
>> <div style="padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">
>>   The page you were looking for doesn't exist.<br/>
>>   You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
>> </div>
>> <a href="#" onclick="history.back(); return false;"><span 
>> class="bullet">&laquo;</span>&nbsp;back</a>
>> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
>> <a href="/">home&nbsp;<span class="bullet">&raquo;</span></a>
>> </div>
>> 
>> ...
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> 
>> You will then see that ooo-site does not need any redirection for these 
>> urls. Users do not have any expectation other than a 404.
>> 
>>> 
>>> So if you are only redirecting http://openoffice.org/ (or its index page) 
>>> to http://www.openoffice.org, no deep linking into openoffice.org will 
>>> redirect, is that right?
>> 
>> KENAI does this redirect, not us. We do NOT need to redirect anything in the 
>> http://openoffice.org/projects/ path. We are leaving that legacy behind.
>> 
>>> And only http://www.openoffice.org/ ... URLs will see ooo-site.apache.org/ 
>>> ... paths, is that that the idea?
>> 
>> They will have the same IP.
>> 
>>> 
>>> OK, so that explains why there is no worry about recursion if 
>>> ooo-site.apache.org/projects/FOO/lists/ redirects to 
>>> openoffice.org/projects/FOO/lists/ as Joe suggests.  I prefer that part of 
>>> it also.
>> 
>> There is no worry because we just don't need it. I won't ask Joe to do it.
>> 
>>> 
>>> I know how to do that on my own web sites, whether using .htaccess or meta 
>>> elements in page headers. For ooo-site, not so much.
>> 
>> For the future, meta elements should work just fine.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> And I am now going off list for a time while I sort out other work.
>> 
>> Me too. A lot to TRY to convince you that there is no worry and no need.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>> 
>>> 
>>> - Dennis 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:42
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Now I'm even more confused.
>>>> 
>>>> Will http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/ still find the list pages 
>>>> or will it redirect to http://www.openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/ and 
>>>> 404, since ooo-site.apache.org/projects/www/lists/ has nothing there?
>>> 
>>> No it won't redirect. It only redirects at the first level.
>>> 
>>> http://www.openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/ does not exist at Kenai it 
>>> gives a 404. Nothing to worry about.
>>> 
>>> The pattern is http://openoffice.org/projects/FOO/lists/
>>> 
>>> Please try these urls in your browser before you speculate.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - Dennis
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:19
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> But we're NOT cutting over "openoffice.org"
>>>>> now so I don't see what the hemming and hawing
>>>>> is about.  We're doing "www.openoffice.org",
>>>>> aren't we?
>>>> 
>>>> Dennis missed our discussion of this trick.
>>>> 
>>>> If a user goes to http://openoffice.org/ then Kenai very nicely redirects 
>>>> them to http://www.openoffice.org/.
>>>> 
>>>> Website migration is decoupled from the following other issues:
>>>> - Mailing List cutover. (ooo-site should avoid allowing users to subscribe 
>>>> to the old lists.)
>>>> - @openoffice.org forwarder cut-off.
>>>> - openoffice.org ids and extensions and templates access.
>>>> 
>>>> There are a bunch of servlets around login and project mailing lists. 
>>>> These will break. They will need to be removed, but I don't think that 
>>>> should stop us from migration.
>>>> 
>>>> I do agree that we should make the old legacy visible on the new site. 
>>>> I've asked for someone to look into /mail_list.html. Links to 
>>>> http://openoffice.org/projects/ and 
>>>> http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/. would be welcome additions. CTR 
>>>> people!
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>> From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]>
>>>>>> To: [email protected]; 'Joe Schaefer' 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 2:46 PM
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It has to do with this page and all of the other pages like it for the 
>>>>>> lists that each of the OpenOffice.org projects (and NL projects) have: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists>.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you have an OpenOffice.org login, you will see Subscribe and (if 
>>>>>> already subscribed) Unsubscribe buttons for each list on that page.  
>>>>>> Also, the archives are accessible from those pages in a browser-friendly 
>>>>>> form.  This is how one can read the list using a browser and there is 
>>>>>> even a way to post to the list via the web interface.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> While some people aren't aware that there is this one-stop arrangement 
>>>>>> and use the e-mail means of controlling their subscription, others rely 
>>>>>> on this, including TJ for administrative functions.  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This aspect of the mailing-list service will go away with the cut-over 
>>>>>> of the web site.  There is no reminder or announcement about that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Dennis
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Joe Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:59
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why does one have to do with the other?
>>>>>> We are not cutting over the MX record for
>>>>>> openoffice.org now are we?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [ ... ]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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