[SAC] [Board] Several old FOSS4G sites no longer online?

[Alex Mandel]

Sounds like a deal. I believe these are all on webextra. Lets modify the
vhosts in question to deny all allow localhost and turn them on.

Then the 2 of you should be able to httrack locally while on webextra
calling the real domain name.

Thanks,
Alex

On 04/24/2014 01:19 PM, Eli Adam wrote:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1265 has some details.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> 2. run something like httrack over the sites to convert into static
>>>
>>> Option 2 is probably easier, and safer long term. I think Eli was
>>> interested in this, we just need to re-enable the sites over localhost
>>> on the server and try it out.
>>
>> I am happy to help with option 2 since we need the sites back online
>> as static copy.
> 
> I am willing to run httrack over the sites.  I don't really know
> httrack but after an hour of experimenting on some sites offered to
> try it on the premise that it would be better than nothing. Would be
> glad to work with Markus on this or defer if he prefers to do it.
> 
>>
>> Markus
> 
>>> FYI, it should be the stated practice in the FOSS4G organizing notes to
>>> plan and archive the site after a conference finishes, so that we don't
>>> run into this issue down the line. OSGeo is happy to hold the archives
>>> (in Static form) of the sites even if they had been hosted elsewhere
>>> when originally made.
> 
> Nottingham did this for 2013,
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/foss4g/2013/website  I don't know
> if that is what we see at http://2013.foss4g.org/
> 
> 
> Eli
>