Thread: Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue
Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes: > This is probably the wrong place to mention this, but idunno: Yeah, wrong place, right place is pgsql-www. > I did a search in the docs of pg_standby and was presented this link: > Based on your search term, we recommend the following links: > * http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ > but that link gives a 404: This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places. Can't we get a redirect in there? regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote: > Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes: > > Based on your search term, we recommend the following links: > > * http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ > > but that link gives a 404: > > This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our > cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there > are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places. > Can't we get a redirect in there? Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is upgraded on that server.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes: > >>> Based on your search term, we recommend the following links: >>> * http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ >>> but that link gives a 404: >> >> This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our >> cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there >> are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places. >> Can't we get a redirect in there? > > Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think > this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is > upgraded on that server. That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another" haphazard guess at the cause ... The problem appears to be that *at some point*, someone renamed the cvsweb.cgi script: -r-xr--r-- 1 root wheel 126590 Sep 25 21:36 cvsweb.cgi.not_used This was *ages* ago though, so am I bit confused as to how it ever worked ... i just re-installed it and now the URL works again ... I just made two changes to the cvsweb.conf file itself so that it matches what is displayed on anoncvs as well (footer and Diff format) ... Let me know if there are any other issues / changes that need to be made ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think >> this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is >> upgraded on that server. > > That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another" > haphazard guess at the cause ... Let's just say I'm happy you fixed it, and I hope it won't break again.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >>> Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think >>> this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is >>> upgraded on that server. >> >> That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another" >> haphazard guess at the cause ... > > Let's just say I'm happy you fixed it, and I hope it won't break again. Surely the correct fix is to do an http level permanent redirect (301) to anoncvs.postgresql.org, rather than maintain both servers. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes: >> >>>> Based on your search term, we recommend the following links: >>>> * >>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ >>>> but that link gives a 404: >>> >>> This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our >>> cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there >>> are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places. >>> Can't we get a redirect in there? >> >> Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think >> this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is >> upgraded on that server. > > That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another" > haphazard guess at the cause ... > > The problem appears to be that *at some point*, someone renamed the > cvsweb.cgi script: > > -r-xr--r-- 1 root wheel 126590 Sep 25 21:36 cvsweb.cgi.not_used > > This was *ages* ago though, so am I bit confused as to how it ever > worked ... That is intentional. It is supposed to be a *redirect* to the new site. > i just re-installed it and now the URL works again ... I just made two > changes to the cvsweb.conf file itself so that it matches what is > displayed on anoncvs as well (footer and Diff format) ... > > Let me know if there are any other issues / changes that need to be made Yeah, please revert that and make it a redirect instead :-) The problem itself is twofold. Because the link in the docbot database should be updated to point to anoncvs and not developer. But that's not a Marc thing :-) And the old style links (developer.pg.org) should be made working through the redirect anyway, because there are likely a number of such links out there that we cannot change. //Magnus
Magnus Hagander wrote: > The problem itself is twofold. Because the link in the docbot database > should be updated to point to anoncvs and not developer. But that's not > a Marc thing :-) And the old style links (developer.pg.org) should be > made working through the redirect anyway, because there are likely a > number of such links out there that we cannot change. Yes, for example http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-03/msg00356.php
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Dave Page wrote:
> Surely the correct fix is to do an http level permanent redirect (301)
> to anoncvs.postgresql.org, rather than maintain both servers.
Not sure what broke then, as that was what was there before ... and I just
uncommented the Redirect, and it works now too ...
It now has:
# cvsweb service is moved Redirect /cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/ http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.
cgi/pgsql/ Redirect /cvsweb.cgi http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi
The first deals with some legacy URLs that may be floating around, and the
second catches the normal stuff ...
Tested both from here, and both appear to rediret fine to anoncvs ... let
me know if there is a problem still ...
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