[GenABEL-dev] web-server todo's

[L.C. Karssen]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 14:52 +0100, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> > One of the things that I think needs to be done before "public release"
> > is to change some DNS settings. This would take 10-15 minutes.
> > Right now only forum.genabel.org is working as expected. For the website
> > (Drupal) we have www.genabel.org planned, right?
> > I think that for consistency we should also set the correct DNS entries
> > for genabel.com and genabel.net.
> >
> > Furthermore, do we want to point devel.genabel.* and/or dev.genabel.* to
> > https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/genabel/ ?
> > And how about
> > man.genabel.* -> http://test.genabel.org/drupal6/?q=manuals
> > doc.genabel.* -> idem dito
> >
> 
> These are terrific suggestions, thanks, Lennart. Cause we need to plan
> the time, one of the main pieces I see in your message that migrating
> from test.genabel.org to www.genabel.org will take 15 minute only.
> These are good news :)

Even though it doesn't take much time I think we should do this early
because it will help with the link stuff further down the road. This way
any errors in the links (e.g. those with absolute paths like
http://test.genabel.org/etc) will show up early and allow us more time
for fixing.


> >> * Replace MGA *ABEL pages with something, which re-directs the traffic
> >> to www.genabel.org
> >
> > This depends a bit on the level of access that you have on MGA. IIRC you
> > have the files in your ~/public_html dir, right? There are a couple of
> > ways to redirect pages. If the sysadmin of MGA has Apache's mod_rewrite
> > enabled we can use that. See e.g.
> > http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/#301modrewrite for an
> > example.
> >
> 
> Wow. I thought of something more simple, which I used for old-old-old
> page of GenABEL, see
> 
> http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/nlru/GenABEL
> 
> basically, it boils down to this HTML line
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;
> URL=http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/ABEL/GenABEL/">
> 
> Anyone sees any problem to use this?

It really is "the old way" of doing it and it may incur search engine
penalties. Check the "HTML Redirection" section at the top of on Steven
Hargrove's web site for some arguments against it. 
However, it will work as expected. 


Regards,

Lennart.

> 
> best wishes,
> Yurii

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