Darren J Moffat wrote:
1) Is hub definitely part of the new URL names ? What happens if I go to:
http://www.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/zfsbootFAQ
You'll get a 404.
Does hub have to be part of the new name ?
Yes, because the opensolaris.org and www.opensolaris.org hostnames are
already in use by the current portal and Jive, which both live inside
the same webserver. We'll be turning off the portal part, but Jive will
be remaining.
Why hub ? Rather than wiki ?
Because we don't want to name the community pages after the technology
that we used to implement them, just as we wouldn't have named the new
site cms.opensolaris.org if we'd used a CMS. Also, the new site is
fairly tightly structured and access controlled whereas wikis are
usually a bit more free-form. We could well provide a more
'traditional' wiki at some point in the future, so we'd like to keep the
wiki hostname free for that eventuality.
2) Why can't we just keep the old names ? Is XWiki not flexible enough
that we have to have these new less hierarchical looking names with +
signs in them ?
No, that's just the way it works.
3) Do we really have to have /bin/ in the URL - seeing that just gives
me a bad feeling - I'm sure it is safe but it just feels wrong and sets
of alarm bells in my head.
It isn't really unsafe as the '/bin/' part isn't actually a traditional
cgi-bin directory, it is used to identify that the URL needs to be
handed off to Struts for processing. It *could* be changed [1], but
we'd have to write our own default servlet, plus making a number of
other changes. We are trying to run as 'vanilla' XWiki install as we
can, so we will be sticking to the defaults as far as possible.
[1] http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ShortURLs
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Alan Burlison
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