>>>>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:25:27 -0500, >>>>> hadley wickham (hw) wrote:
>> I think I like Hadley's proposal of collecting conference webpages >> (after the conference is over) to one of our servers >> better. Redirecting to pages at different locations is dangerous when >> people move on to new positions. > That wasn't my suggestion, Sorry, my mistake. I was wading through several hundred emails yesterday after an offline period ... makes your brain go numb rather quickly. > but I can understand your desire to do > that. Perhaps just taking a static snapshot using something like > wget, and hosting that on the R-project website would be a good > compromise. Hmm, wouldn't it be easier if the hosting institution would make a tgz file? wget over HTTP is rather bad in resolving links etc we could include a note on the top page that this is only a snapshot copy and have a link to the original site (in case something changes there). >> E.g., I currently have the "problem" that since both Kurt and myself >> are no longer at TU Wien, we cannot guarantee how long >> www.ci.tuwien.ac.at will be up and running, and we were talking last >> week about moving the old DSC webpages to the server at WU running >> www.R-project.org. > Yes, this is why I prefer to host all of my sites on an external host. >> So it would make a lot of sense to me to collect old conference pages >> to a central location under the www.R-project.org umbrella. During the >> active phase of a conference it is certainly better to have them on >> a server under control of the local organizing committee. > The one problem is setting up a redirect so that existing links and > google searches aren't broken. This would need to be put in place at > least 6 months before the old website closed. Yes, very good point, I didn't think about that. But the R site is searched very often, so material there appears rather quickly on Google searches. Ad bookmarks: I don't want to remove the old site, just have an archive copy at a central location. .f ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.