[kaffe-siteadmin] All the stuff on the server versus my URL rewriting scheme

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Kristian Rasmussen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 

Hi Kristian,

> Sorry about the relatively slow progress with the new website. There's
> a lot of very messy code to be cleaned up, but only about one third of
> it remains now.

Thank you very much for taking your time to bring it into shape!

> Now, I made this URL rewriting scheme (Apache mod_rewrite) that I
> expect should be used on the new site. It redirects any path on
> kaffe.org as GET-variables to index.php. Like,
> kaffe.org/documentation/ to kaffe.org/index.php?p=documentation,
> without showing it as that, of course.
> 

Nice.

> Now, the problem that remains is all the other things on the website,
> that resides there without being part of the website itself. Like the
> mailing list archives, the ViewCVS etc.. The adresses for these will
> be redirected to the website itself. I see two solutions:
> - Moving the stuff to some subdomain, maybe physically (ie. another server)

I think we could have the web site running in its own little Xen 
instance, then all the unrelated rest could map to subdomains 
(viewcvs.kaffe.org, mailarchive.kaffe.org, etc). Jim, what's your take 
on that?

> Also, if you'd like to see how i'm making progress, check
> http://proc.is-a-geek.org:5000 . It's the webserver on my laptop, so
> it's only available if you're lucky to check in at a time where it's
> online. If you would like me to upload it somewhere, say so.

I didn't manage to meet you online, so if you have a spare moment, you 
may want to try uploading it to albert.kaffe.org

cheers,
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