WWW migration

[Auke Jilderda]

Good question.  Will need to investigate a bit to figure out what we can
and cannot do.  Will get back to you on this tomorrow or early next
week.

Any WebCom members have more comments and thoughts on Jason's
suggestion?  I might as well take that along right away. :-)


Auke 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca] 
> Sent: 05 September 2006 18:38
> To: Auke Jilderda
> Cc: Andrew Kelly; dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: WWW migration
> 
> We were hoping to be able to have http://www.osgeo.org/ and
> http://osgeo.org/ answer with the content currently on
> http://community.osgeo.org/  We don't want an additional site, we want
> to replace the current main site with the Drupal content.  
> 
> My guess on this was that it would be difficult/impossible because of
> the integration of user management into the main website for 
> all of the
> project websites, but thought I'd ask.  Ideally, the admin functions
> would go to, say, http://projects.osgeo.org/, and 
> http://www.osgeo.org/
> would answer with the content currently hosted at community, and
> http://osgeo.org/ would do a 301 redirect to http://www.osgeo.org/ (it
> currently goes to an SSL https://www.osgeo.org/)
> 
> Any WebCom folks have comments on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Auke Jilderda [mailto:auke at collab.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 09:08
> To: Jason Birch
> Cc: Andrew Kelly
> Subject: RE: WWW migration
> 
> On 30 August 2006 20:42, Jason Birch wrote:
> > 
> > Can you confirm whether it would be possible for us to migrate our
> > http://www.osgeo.org and http://osgeo.org   web presenses to the
> > http://community.osgeo.org/ website without disrupting the 
> rest of the
> 
> > OSGeo services at CollabNet?  Possibly by setting up an 
> > admin.osgeo.org alias pointing to the admin functions?
> 
> Jason,
> 
> if I understand you correctly, you would like to have a front end web
> presence (e.g. at [1]) separate from the development 'back 
> end' (e.g. at
> [2]).  That is not a problem; in fact, we do that more often, for
> instance BEA's CodeShare [3].  It essentially requires (a) 
> you to set up
> and maintain a server and (b) us to set up a DNS redirection for a sub
> domain of osgeo.org.
> 
> I expect you would like to have a Drupal instance as web presence like
> Jo is working on?  The most slick user experience is if we align the
> styles, colour schemes, and main menus of both sites.  We can 
> certainly
> have our web designers to work with you to align that.  Would you be
> interested in that?
> 
> 
> Auke
> 
>  1. community.osgeo.org
>  2. osgeo.org
>  3. http://dev2dev.bea.com/ as front web presence with
>     https://www.projects.dev2dev.bea.com/ as development back end
> 
>