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Subject: Re: URL redirection lost
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:04:25 -0700
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On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net> =
wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm replying to the original because later response have lost the =
urls
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>> On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:54 AM, FR web forum wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>> On the french forum, we have many hyperlinks to ex-QA website like:
>>> h**p://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3DXXXXX
>>> This is jump to a "not found" page.
>>> Is it possible to have an automatic redirection to h**ps://
>> issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3DXXXXX
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>> We'll need to ask Apache Infra to do this. I think that like for
>> ooo-site.apache.org / www.openoffice.org the following steps will do =
the
>> trick:
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>> (1) Change the DNS zone for qa.openoffice.org to point to
>> issues.apache.org.
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>> (2) Add qa.openoffice.org as an alias for issues.apache.org in its
>> httpd.conf.
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> Won't this completely overwrite the current contents of
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> http://qa.openoffice.org
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> In other words, you won't be able to get to what is currently on that =
site?

Yes. So let's retrieve that content first, and then rewrite/redirect =
that in a different direction maybe ooo-site.apache.org/issues/.

Regards,
Dave

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>> (3) Then as Dennis suggested add a rewrite or redirection rule to the
>> httpd.conf. This converts urls with "qa.openoffice.org/issues" to "
>> issues.apache.org/ooo".
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>> That's the goal.  This would be a reasonable JIRA request, but =
perhaps an
>> email to infrastructure@a.o first?
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>> If someone does this please reply. If not I'll do it when I have more =
time.
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>> Regards,
>> Dave
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>>> Thanks
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