> I do not know what rsync is.
>
> Still I don't know how a proper cvs mirror is done. Especially if you
> want to keep all revisions. (perhaps this is what rsync can help with)
> If we don't have the revisions cvsweb will not be as nice as it
> should. the commitlog would of course work.
>
> Anyway cvs mirrors will only (obviously) have anon access.
Yes, only anon access. rsync should be the best, but I'll have to check
up on it.
> Perhaps we should let them host the web pages (not devel), they could
> probably setup a virtual host for www.lyx.org. I guess they are more
> stable than la1ad, and a lot faster. (cpu-power)
They told that they do not allow virtual hosts. So, the link would have
to be "http://sunsite.auc.dk/lyx". Of course, we can use a redirection
page on la1ad to go there, but this is a negative side of it.
It's possible to use Python-scripts, and hopefully soon PHP. They are
paranoid about security, so things have to be tested before they'll open
up for stuff like that.
So, besides the redirection problem, sunsite.auc.dk should serve fine
as the web-home.
> I have not tried the speed, but I guess it is fast enough.
Mate Widl measured it, and the first time it took ten more seconds than
going to www.lyx.org. Later, it was as fast to connect as la1ad, but
once the connection was made, speed was faster.
My feeling is that the first delay could be caused by a DNS look-up.
So I'll get in touch with them and try to get this going. When the
framework is up, we can judge whether we'll use it as the main www-site,
or just a mirror.
Greets,
Asger
P.S. How goes with PHP on nazgul? I read the installation instructions,
which are available in the user guide on www.php.net, and it said that
you have two options: Using a cgi-script-thing which does not require
recompiles, but is essentially non-safe, and a safe way, which requires
recompiling apache, with support for the PHP module.
I don't know about the RedHat PHP package, but I assume that using the
RedHat source package as the basis would make things simpler. Then,
you'd probably only need to add the PHP package module as described
in the PHP docs, and the setup would be compatible with the rest of
the Redhat setup.
