[GenABEL-dev] web-server todo's

[Anatoliy Kirichenko]

Dear Yurii!

> Dear Anatoly, dear All,
> 
> apparently our web-site is in good shape -- at least there were no
> reports of serious problems, and we gave few days for the people to
> react. Unless someone pinpoints a big trouble (please notify
> immediately!), I suggest that  we
> 
> >>> * Replace MGA *ABEL pages with something, which re-directs the traffic
> >>> to www.genabel.org
> 
> Anatoly, can you please take care of this some time this week, if
> possible? I presume we want to redirect traffic from
> 
> http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/nlru/GenABEL/
> http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/ABEL/GenABEL/
> http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/ABEL/
I changed index.html file on this pages with
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.genabel.org">
It works.

> 
> and (ideally) all other content in these directories. This is
> important: e.g. if you search google for "ABEL tutorial" you get
> 
> http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/ABEL/GenABEL/ABEL-tutorial.pdf
The page is redirected too. But there is no pdf-file
http://www.genabel.org/old/pdfs/ABEL-tutorial.pdf

Which pages should be redirected else?

Do you like this way of redirection?

> 
> as the top hit.
> 
> Just to remind what we had in our discussion about re-direction:
> 
> "Good" procedure:
> 
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> 
> Simple procedure (but we will be penalized by search engines):
> 
> > 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/">

Anatoly