[SAC] Re: qgis web migration to osgeo

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/22/08, Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
>  that sound's nice and simple - I am happy we don't have to switch. I will
>  talk to the qgis volunteers and then come back to you. I guess what we already
>  need for the beginning is a qgis.osgeo.org subdomain on the telascience server
>  and a mysql database for the new joomla installation, could you arrange that for
>  us, please?
>
>  And because we want to prune the current qgis website back to the very
>  essentials, we plan to use qgis.osgeo.org as a test environment in the beginning
>  and I would like to ask, if we can have a htaccess password as well, so only the
>  people directly involved and the QGIS PSC can see and discuss the new template
>  and design until we officially migrate.

Otto,

.htaccess files should be no problem.  If you need to do anything really
funky on the apache server you might want to run your own apache
instance on a distinct port.   Almost anything is possible if you are
willing to document and maintain it.

Best regards,
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