how website redirects were done

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

I see from
https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-puppet/pull/1773/commits/6fcb902f7fc8ebf6d28c5bf68917244e77b29764
that it looks like Richard did a pull request for apache infrastructure-puppet
to add some redirects for the uima website's d/uimafit-2.* and d/uimafit-3.* and
d/ruta-2.* and d/ruta-3.*

How was this figured out? I had thought from reading the docs here
https://infra.apache.org/project-site.html#configure

that we would do this without infrastructure support, just by adding some
.htaccess files to certain directories.

-Marshall

Re: how website redirects were done

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

On 20. May 2020, at 17:53, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> 
> nice! and good to document the process :-) -Marshall

IMHO such stuff should be documented by INFRA, not by individual projects.

-- Richard

Re: how website redirects were done

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

nice! and good to document the process :-) -Marshall


On 5/20/2020 4:51 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 20. May 2020, at 02:33, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
>>
>> How was this figured out? I had thought from reading the docs here
>> https://infra.apache.org/project-site.html#configure
> Long time ago, we had already talked on the dev list about archiving old stuff and
> adding redirects:
>
>  https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/99d2653648d6b49e6a53b5d443c79eae05443edd2fe751b4b08331c1%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E
>
> In that mail linked above, Marshall had pointed to configuration files from INFRA.
> When I looked, these files did not longer exist at the same location. So I asked
> INFRA on Slack what the current approach would be - the htaccess files or the YAML files.
> I got pointed to a new location for the YAML files and added the redirection there.
>
> Btw. I also tried adding a htaccess file with redirects, but it hadn't worked. Maybe because
> it doesn't work in general or maybe because I configured the htaccess file in the wrong way...
> but since the approach via the YAML files worked, I didn't bother anymore to figure out the
> htaccess way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard

Re: how website redirects were done

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

Hi,

> On 20. May 2020, at 02:33, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> 
> How was this figured out? I had thought from reading the docs here
> https://infra.apache.org/project-site.html#configure

Long time ago, we had already talked on the dev list about archiving old stuff and
adding redirects:

 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/99d2653648d6b49e6a53b5d443c79eae05443edd2fe751b4b08331c1%40%3Cdev.uima.apache.org%3E

In that mail linked above, Marshall had pointed to configuration files from INFRA.
When I looked, these files did not longer exist at the same location. So I asked
INFRA on Slack what the current approach would be - the htaccess files or the YAML files.
I got pointed to a new location for the YAML files and added the redirection there.

Btw. I also tried adding a htaccess file with redirects, but it hadn't worked. Maybe because
it doesn't work in general or maybe because I configured the htaccess file in the wrong way...
but since the approach via the YAML files worked, I didn't bother anymore to figure out the
htaccess way.

Cheers,

-- Richard