New download page up on daedalus

[Justin Erenkrantz <je...@apache.org>]

Well, I came back from watching the World Series (woo-hoo! Go 
Angels!) and I figured that I could just tidy up a bit on the mirror 
download page that I posted earlier.  All of the relevant bits are 
now checked in, and I'm now reasonably comfortable with the results 
(saw 2 +1s, so it seems okay for now).

So, I've switched the httpd.apache.org 'download from a mirror' site 
to link to this new page:

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Much thanks to Joshua for the initial thrust.  =-)

For those that are interested, that link is really a rendering of 
download.html that has been run through EZT and the python 
mirrors.cgi script.  Therefore, any content changes to that page 
should be made to download.xml and then propogated back to 
download.html (by anakia) where EZT will then pick it up.  In short, 
treat download.xml as the definitive content...  Hope that makes 
sense to anyone who'd have to maintain it.

If the system doesn't manage to blow itself up after a few days, I 
think it'd be a good idea to remove the 'from here' link as well, but 
I'd prefer to leave a well-marked escape hatch for now.  -- justin

Re: New download page up on daedalus

[Aaron Bannert <aa...@clove.org>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:24:07PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> If the system doesn't manage to blow itself up after a few days, I 
> think it'd be a good idea to remove the 'from here' link as well, but 
> I'd prefer to leave a well-marked escape hatch for now.  -- justin

I probably missed something in how your script works, but don't
we still want the "from here" link for people who are using an
explicit mirror url? That's the lazy link I use from my mirror's
front page so that I can dig into the download pages.

-aaron

Re: New download page up on daedalus

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
>
> If the system doesn't manage to blow itself up after a few days, I think
> it'd be a good idea to remove the 'from here' link as well, but I'd
> prefer to leave a well-marked escape hatch for now.  -- justin


Yes.  And even more importantly, change the links towards the bottom of 
index.xml to point to download.cgi.

In the end, there should be no direct links to /dist/httpd.  That 
directory is linked from download.cgi, so those who want it can still 
get to it.  They just need to go one extra step.

Thanks for the good work Justin.

Joshua.