[Foss4g2009] FOSS4G 2009 Website

[Paul Ramsey]

While there is some love for

http://www.foss4g.org/2009

may I put my oar in for

http://2009.foss4g.org

Since the latter can be easily pointed to non-osgeo boxes, while the
former will require redirects or proxypasses to do so.

(Moving to YYYY.foss4g.org also allows us to point those numbers
directly at the 2007 and 2006 sites for instant gratification.)

Also, as Jason Birch pointed out to me in 2007, for optimal search
ranking, you want to choose *one* canonical domain name and redirect
to that, not have 5 urls all answering.

So, rather than having

http://www.foss4g2009.org/hotels.html
http://www.foss4g.org/2009/hotels.html
http://foss4g2009.org/hotels.html
http://2009.foss4g.org/hotels.html

all return content, only *one* should return content, and all the rest
should 304 to that one.

Paul

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Dave Patton <davep at confluence.org> wrote:
> On 2008/09/23 10:04 AM, Dave Patton wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, here's what needs to be done:
>
>> 2)
>> Configure "that box". Presumably entails
>> setting up a public-facing directory for
>> the root web directory, and Apache config
>> (virtual host?) to support HTTP requests
>> in the form www.foss4g.org/YYYY/ and
>> www.foss4gYYYY.org (e.g. via suitable
>> Apache Rewrite rules).
>
> Also, have a rewrite rule for requests that
> use the subdomain: foss4g2009.foss4g.org
>
>> 4)
>> Setup DNS entries for www.foss4g.org
>> (presumably already in place) and
>> www.foss4gYYYY.org to point to the
>> IP for "that box".
>
> If the DNS entry is already in place
> for foss4g.org such that any subdomian
> such as foss4g2009.foss4g.org will go
> to "that box", then nothing more needs
> to be done, but if not, then create a
> DNS entry for foss4g2009.foss4g.org
>
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