On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Silio d' Angelo wrote:
Why are you using dev.apache.org::apache-site? Can you tell me where you got that information from, because we need to fix any documentation that refers to that. It hasn't been valid in many years.
It was in the configuration file we were using about one year ago. I wondered what would be the difference between HTTP and FTP mirrors if both are sourced from www.apache.org::apache-dist.
No difference at all other than protocol. In fact, I really don't care too much about FTP mirrors. We add them to our list, but we highly prefer HTTP.
Anyway, I changed the scripts to use www.apache.org::apache-dist as told in http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html. It is a pity to not have a true HTTP mirror though; would it make sense to "proxy-pass" www.apache.org to allow people out here to easily access FAQs and documentation ?
There is really almost nothing of interest on www.apache.org. The interesting stuff is contained on the project websites (httpd.apache.org, jakarta.apache.org, etc). Unfortunately, we do not have a good infrastructure in place to allow the mirroring of those sites.
But since almost all our bandwidth usage comes from downloads, providing mirrors of apache-dist is a great way to help Apache.
Joshua.
