I agree. Using the DNS is too heavy-handed. WARNING, WARNING: another orcmid instant-design effort ahead:
What is required is an effective redirect from http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/ to the AOOo BZ instance. The trick is to have whatever rewrite is needed for show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXX to map also. This can only be done on the current live site of course, although it could work on the cut-over site too. To have it work on the test ooo-site http://ooo-site.apache.org/qa/issues/ doesn't solve the problem of the immediate breakage, but it might be all that can be done. If the redirect is at the /qa/issues sub-level, it shouldn't matter in an .htaccess there how that path is reached and it should still work when cut-over happens. As long as all the rest of the path is preserved in the redirect, we're golden. If not, a rewrite rule is needed to do something about the .cgi and the query part. I've never had to deal with that. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:r.birc...@gmx.ch] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 15:10 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: URL redirection lost Am 04.11.11 22:39, schrieb Kay Schenk: > 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? This won't work. because the issuetracker is not related to qa.openoffice.org. You can use any aviable subdomain at ooo. This means that *openoffice.org/issues will work And there are other problems. There are still a load of links who point to the old IssueZilla system. Bernt Eilers wrote a redirect script for it. We have to replace this redirect script too. Greetings Raphael -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
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