On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm replying to the original because later response have lost the urls >> >> On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:54 AM, FR web forum wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On the french forum, we have many hyperlinks to ex-QA website like: >>> h**p://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXX >>> This is jump to a "not found" page. >>> Is it possible to have an automatic redirection to h**ps:// >> issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXX >> >> We'll need to ask Apache Infra to do this. I think that like for >> ooo-site.apache.org / www.openoffice.org the following steps will do the >> trick: >> >> (1) Change the DNS zone for qa.openoffice.org to point to >> issues.apache.org. >> >> (2) Add qa.openoffice.org as an alias for issues.apache.org in its >> httpd.conf. >> > > Won't this completely overwrite the current contents of > > http://qa.openoffice.org > > In other words, you won't be able to get to what is currently on that site?
Yes. So let's retrieve that content first, and then rewrite/redirect that in a different direction maybe ooo-site.apache.org/issues/. Regards, Dave > > >> >> (3) Then as Dennis suggested add a rewrite or redirection rule to the >> httpd.conf. This converts urls with "qa.openoffice.org/issues" to " >> issues.apache.org/ooo". >> >> That's the goal. This would be a reasonable JIRA request, but perhaps an >> email to infrastructure@a.o first? >> >> If someone does this please reply. If not I'll do it when I have more time. >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> >> >>> >>> Thanks >> >> > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "This is no social crisis > Just another tricky day for you." > -- "Tricky Day", the Who
