FOSS4G Redirect

[jsanz]

Hi all,

I'm receiving this request on behalf of the FOSS4G Europe 2015 website working group. Can you please take care of it?

The first release of site is ready, you can see it at this address: ​http://geolabs.fr/foss4ge/

Now the SAC should redirect ​http://europe.foss4g.org/2015 to ​http://geolabs.fr/foss4ge/, can you do this?

Can you give me also the machine name and share it with us, so we can update our configuration from our side?

[warmerdam]

OK, this redirect should be in place now. Also ​http://europe.foss4g.org used to redirect to the 2014 site, and now it does this to the 2015 site. It would be nice to have a top level page with logos and links for both conference but I haven't done that.

[marconeg]

Replying to warmerdam:

OK, this redirect should be in place now. Also ​http://europe.foss4g.org used to redirect to the 2014 site, and now it does this to the 2015 site. It would be nice to have a top level page with logos and links for both conference but I haven't done that.

Thank you! Please, is it possible to have a transparent redirection, like 2014 foss4geu meeting?

Thanks, Ciao Marco

[warmerdam]

Marco,

The 2014 site is actually hosted on foss4g.org (the OSGeo webextra VM), so the apache config just serves it directly.

The 2015 redirect looks like:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^{/2015/(.*)$ ​http://geolabs.fr/foss4ge/$1 [L,R=301]}

I am not certain what transparent redirection is, but I assume you were hoping the urls would still look like ​http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/... instead of geolabs.fr, is that right? I don't know how to make that happen short of hosting it on the OSGeo server. If it is a fairly static site we could do that.

[warmerdam]

The above rewrite should look more like:

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^/2015/(.*)$ http://geolabs.fr/foss4ge/$1 [L,R=301]

[jsanz]

If they can't upload the site to our server, maybe they can use a reverse proxy, no?

[warmerdam]

I'm afraid I don't know what a reverse proxy is.

[jsanz]

A reverse proxy offers content from other locations (even outside the server) on a location at the web server. I can help on trying to set this up.

[warmerdam]

I can provide appropriate access to the server, if you don't already have it. The foss4g config file is /etc/apache2/sites-available/foss4g (search in it for europe).

I have added sudo access for user "jsanz" on the webextra vm (ie. foss4g.org)

[jsanz]

Excellent Frank, thanks.

In fact there was a reverse proxy commented from 2014, I think everything is OK now.

[marconeg]

Thank you very much! grazie!

Marco