Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:11:55PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 5:01 PM
>Subject: Re: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
>
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>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:58:48PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >Well for this change - Suhaib its your decision.  I'm happy with
>> >xfree86.cygwin.com and the links to cygwin becoming non relative URL's,
>> >or with www.cygwin.com/xfree86 and the links staying as relative URLs.
>> >I'll maintain either.
>> >
>> >My _suggestion_ is to use www.cygwin.com/xfree86 and relative URL's
>> >because if people start mirroring cygwin, the xfree86 pages will get
>> >mirrored as well.  Then xfree86.cygwin.com becomes a 301 redirect to
>> >www.cygwin.com/xfree86 (with Chris's cooperation of course :])
>>
>> I haven't moved anything for xfree86.cygwin.com.  I've just made apache
>> recognize that if someone says xfree86.cygwin.com they should really go
>> to http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree .  The location for the xfree86
>> web pages hasn't changed.
>
>I know.  But url's like <a href="../mirrors.htm">mirrors page<a> are
>broken if a user goes to xfree86.cygwin.com.  This needs to be fixed
>one of three ways.

I can always tweak the configuration to allow ../mirrors.html (or maybe even
just ..) to mean the right thing when referencing xfree86.cygwin.com.

>1) turn xfree86.cygwin.com off
>2) redo the whole site replace "../mirrors.htm" & similar with "http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.htm"
>3) make the xfree86.cygwin.com return a 301 or 302 HTTP status line & a Location header which will send browsers to
>"http://www.cygwin.com/xfree86"
>
>> When I mentioned using cygwin.com I really meant that if you are referring to
>> the cygwin project I'd prefer going using cygwin.com.  You can do what you
>> like with your web page, of course.
>
>I understood it the way you describe it.  The issue I am referring to
>is a corollary of moving from a sub-dir on every alias to a domain
>prefix on one or more alias's..  We currently refer to cygwin.com &
>sources.redhat.com/cygwin by relative paths, not by absolute URL's.
>This is much more convenient for mirror sites, and when using aliases
>(such as cygwin.com & sources.redhat.com/cygwin).
>
>I don't want to switch to absolute URL's unless there is a recognised
>benefit.  Suhaib may want the ease of reference for other users that
>xfree86.cygwin.com may bring - so it's his choice.

Ok.  I understand now.  Sorry for the confusion.

If you all don't want this then I'll remove it.

cgf