On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:39:09PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > As you may know, www.debian.org recently moved to GeoDNS[0]. > http://dsa.debian.org/dsablog/2009/07/Howto_mess_up_the_Debian_Project_homepage/ > > Though for the moment, only a subset of webmirrors are part of the > GeoDNS setup, it raises some issues about Apache (or whatever daemon) > configuration with respect to virtual hosts, content-negociation and mime > types. > > 1/ Virtual hosts > ---------------- > Please check that you allow www.debian.org as virtualhost for your > mirror of the Debian website.
Requirement added in the patch attached, in the case someone want to review it. > 2/ Mime-types > ------------- Matt Kraai already documented this. > 3/ Other parameters, like redirection, language: > ------------------------------------------------ > Please review your apache configuration according to > http://www.debian.org/mirror/webmirror.en.html#ref Regards. -- Simon Paillard
Index: webmirror.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/webmirror.wml,v retrieving revision 1.43 diff -u -r1.43 webmirror.wml --- webmirror.wml 14 Aug 2009 03:30:38 -0000 1.43 +++ webmirror.wml 16 Sep 2009 20:05:26 -0000 @@ -276,3 +276,15 @@ Redirect /Packages http://packages.debian.org Redirect /lintian http://lintian.debian.org </pre> + +<h4><a name="vh">Virtual hosts</a></h4> + +<p>The Debian website, accessed through <a +href="www.debian.org">www.debian.org</a> and under several other names, uses a +GeoDNS setup in order to spread the load and select a mirror close to the user's +location.</p> + +<p>As a consequence, Apache should make available the Debian website +through several virtual hosts, like this:</p> + +<pre>ServerAlias www.debian.org www.debian.com debian.org www.*.debian.org</pre>
