[SAC] Virtual Hosts Policy

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 23-Jan-07, at 5:46 AM, Howard Butler wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2007, at 1:18 AM, Norman Vine wrote:
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> I vote for service.host.project
>>> http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal
>
> We seem to have consensus for service-based URLs.  A few more  
> questions:
>
> 1) Does are accepting and implementing a policy affect other OSGeo  
> groups that we aren't immediately thinking about?  geodata, wiki,  
> education, etc?  Do we need their input?

Just for background, during migration we did not recreate all the  
vhosts that CN project sites had since so many of them were nothing  
more than a single page.

As a result, project-based URLs are not being used very much at the  
moment, as we didn't port over more than Mapbender, MapGuide and FDO  
projects.  I think it will be easiest from the Drupal admin point of  
view to have the www face for projects use project-based URLs - where  
there is 1 vhost per drupal instance.  But put up the other services  
up as service-based URLs.

> 2) How should we go about implementing?  Do so immediately and  
> point people to the new URLs with a transition period supported by  
> rewrites?

You will see a bunch of rewrites already, at least for the www stuff,  
to help emulate the past vhost-style setup and forward it to  
osgeo.org/<project>.  This has worked fine except that now certain  
projects (geodata, local chapters) need to manage the whole content  
for their site and not just a few pages - so it seems like there is  
increasing need to stand up more drupal instances.

Tyler