Hello Paulo, Paulo H. "Taka" Torrens wrote: > I understand your security issues, but I'd really like to use some > complex features, so I'd need PHP (or Rails, or Jango, or...). A > Wiki, a script to build compiler packages (for the user to download > exactly what he needs), a pretty-printer to render the source code > (including documentation comments and stuff), and so on... > ... > Is there any way you could activate it? Otherwise, is there any > other way I could achieve this (without using ugly iframes)?
In summary I think the answer is no. Sorry. I don't know of any way to accomplish what you are asking. But there are several points that your question raises. Rather than simply saying, sigh, not possible, let me address some of them. * Being able to host more fancy web pages is nice in concept but that we just don't have the resources to actually do it. PHP might be lightweight enough but Rails/Django are both rather heavy weight servers and both require significant resources to keep updated against security vulnerabilities. Can you imagine if just 10% of the projects hosted wanted to have a unique web service hosted? That would be completely overwhelming! * The web pages are actually hosted on the FSF servers. Those are organizationally distinct from the Savannah site and team. We the Savannah Hackers don't have administrative access to them. For anything related to the web pages all administrative control is through the FSF admins. * Your mod_proxy wouldn't actually do what you wanted it to do. You would redirect away from black.nongnu.org and over to www.google.com and then the user would be there. Any bookmarks would see the new site. Effectively you wouldn't be using black.nongnu.org at all at that point. (And I don't think anyone would like the idea of redirecting over to www.google.com.) * It looks like you are trying to use a .htaccess file. Those have a bad reputation for slowing down servers. If enabled they require the server to make a large number of stat(2) calls for every page served. They are never enabled by default. Again this is up to the FSF admins but personally I would never enable them. You might want to read: https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Htaccess And so I don't really have an answer that you will like. I might suggest that for some of the things you are asking you might try setting them up for yourself. Then you will see the problems of trying to do it on a thousand projects. Whatever is done must be able to scale to a large number of projects and must be manageable for a long time with minimal people resources. It's a problem! Bob
