Hi Sebb, > On Mar 30, 2021, at 4:22 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's currently quite awkward fixing up retired podling websites so > they redirect to the status page. > There are currently about 6 such podlings, dating back to Nov 2013. > > [It's easy enough to do this for incubator sub-sites (e.g. > http://incubator.apache.org/wave), as these can use a single .htaccess > file; that is not the case for the above sites otherwise they would > have been fixed ages ago] > > Recent podlings use websites like http://ariatosca.apache.org/ and/or > http://ariatosca.incubator.apache.org/ > The redirects need to be added in each website source. > > This can be difficult to do, see INFRA-21451 re Tamaya. > This was opened on Feb 21st and has yet to be completed. > > I have proposed an Infra PR which should make it much easier to set up > the redirect to the status file. > > The idea is to set up a special directory: > http://incubator.apache.org/retired/ > > For each retired podling, create a marker directory, e.g. > tamaya/
I can add a step in the clutch2.sh shell script to maintain these placeholders. > > If the web server detects that there is a directory matching the first > part of the web host name (e.g. tamaya), then it redirects to > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tamaya.html (e.g.) I think we should also review the .htaccess for the incubator. More tomorrow. Regards, Dave > > Simples. > > Sebb. > P.S. Attic works in a similar way, but adds a banner instead of redirecting. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
