Host rs.tdwg.org on GitHub pages about dwc HOT 8 CLOSED

I already created a gh-pages branch. A website now lives at http://tdwg.github.io/dwc, but I can always remove it.

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We only need to rewrite (not a redirect, right?) the dwc subpath of the TDWG site. That exists already I believe and rewrites currently to google code, so its simple to change the rule to use github instead

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I believe we are ready to do so, no?

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Markus Döring [email protected]
wrote:

We only need to rewrite (not a redirect, right?) the dwc subpath of the
TDWG site. That exists already I believe and rewrites currently to google
code, so its simple to change the rule to use github instead

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Yep, only the subdomain dwc.

gh-pages with a custom domain such as rs.tdwg.org/dwc need a CNAME record in the root, otherwise it will be a redirect. I haven't done that yet for a project page, but the documentation should be out there.

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dwc is not the subdomain, it is a subdirectory. The subdomain is rs.tdwg.org. That we cannot reassign in the DNS (via a CNAME entry) as it effects the entire TDWG resource subdomain rs.tdwg.org.

The difference between a redirect and rewrite is that the redirect returns a 3xx http status to the client with the new location to fetch from. So the client does 2 calls and the browser will show the github URL at the end.

The rewrite on the other hand is a proxy rule on the tdwg server that kind of fetches the data from github but pipes it through to the client directly so a) the client sees an http 200 and there is no second http call, b) the client sees the rs.tdwg.org url still and no github one.

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@mdoering, did you close the issue because the site is now served by GitHub pages or because it won't work with the subdomain and all?

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Oh, I did not mean to close the issue at all! That was accidental ...

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I have modified the apache config on rs.tdwg.org to use github pages for all rewrites. The rewrites to dwctype.rdf has been removed:

### DWC ###

  # Content Negotiation defaults to html if rdf/xml is not requested

  # dwc attributes
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/rdf\+xml
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/terms/attributes/(.*)$ http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/terms/attributes/dwcattributes.rdf [R=303]  RewriteRule ^/dwc/terms/attributes/(.*)$ http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/terms/attributes/dwcattributes.rdf#$1 [NE,R=303] #NE,R,L,P]

  # dwc terms
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/rdf\+xml
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/terms/([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)$ http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/rdf/dwcterms.rdf [R=303]
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/terms/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$ http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/terms/index.htm#$1 [NE,R=303] #NE,R,L,P]

  # proxy all other /dwc URLs from github pages:
  RewriteRule ^/dwc$ /dwc/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/$     http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/index.htm [NE,L,P]
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/(.+)/$ http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/$1/index.htm [NE,L,P]
  RewriteRule ^/dwc/(.+)$  http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/$1 [NE,L,P]


  <Location /dwc>
    # Directive to ensure *.rdf files served as appropriate content type,
    # if not present in main apache config
    AddType application/rdf+xml .rdf
    AddType text/xml .xml
    AddType text/xml .xsd
    AddType text/html .html
    AddType text/html .htm
    AddType text/plain .txt
 </Location>

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