[Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice Bugzilla (migration) Proposal

[Thomas Hackert]

Hello Robinson, *,
On Sonntag, 10. November 2013 08:08 Robinson Tryon wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Thomas Hackert
> <thackert at nexgo.de> wrote:
>> Would mod_rewrite replace all existing URLs (the ones in the wiki
>> as well as the ones in SilverStripe as well as the ones from the
>> blogplanet/twitter feeds and the like)?
> 
> mod_rewrite is just a module in Apache that lets us create a set
> of rules for changing certain urls into other urls. In this
> particular case, we're just having it send all traffic that comes
> in for bugs.libreoffice.org over to bugs.freedesktop.org*. Setting
> up a redirect would not change anything present in Silverstripe,
> the Wiki, etc.., but it would allow us to manually update links in
> Silverstripe, the Wiki, and elsewhere and test to make sure that
> everything is still working.

ah, O.K. Thank you for your explanation :) You see, I have not the 
faintest idea on how to handle a server and the like... :(

> * coincidentally, we could just use DNS to point
> bugs.libreoffice.org point at the IP address for
> bugs.freedesktop.org, however this would have certain detractions
> including delay in how often DNS entries are invalidated, but...I
> digress.

O.K.
Thank you again
Thomas.

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