Installer Mirrors

[LordMatt]

Because we will soon be losing clan-sy.com for a week and apparently I can't host both a redirect script and the installer files on AF's server. I would like to set up 1-2 more installer mirrors. If you are interested, the requirements are that you give me ssh access to your server on a limited account with a web viewable folder.

[koshi]

i think i can help out. i have no idea though how my vps will respond to the generated load.
how much space do the installer files need?
would you need more than scp?

[Jonanin]

really, you can host both.

Or I can give you another subdomain like springredirect.jonanin.com or something.

No reason why you shouldn't be able to.

[smoth]

lordmatt, what would you need of me?

[AF]

erm, why not? I have no problem with you hosting everything on there if thats a problem, my original statement about IP no longer applies otherwise I'd be a huge hypocrite for uploading all those mods to darkstars file hosting.

[url_00]

I will, I got lots of bandwidth.

[LordMatt]

erm, why not? I have no problem with you hosting everything on there if thats a problem, my original statement about IP no longer applies otherwise I'd be a huge hypocrite for uploading all those mods to darkstars file hosting.

fnordia told me it wouldn't work how I had it set up previously (expecting him to redirect the CDNS to spring.darkstars.co.uk/redirect/). If you gave me another domain name (one for the redirect, one for the mirror) it would probably work though.

To the others: Like I said in the OP, I need SSH access (to your linux server) with a limited account that has a web viewable folder. The installer files take a little over 500MB now, but may continue to grow in size some.

[koshi]

edit: sorry turns out i won't be able to help out

[Fnordia]

To clarify, what is needed is basically a virtual host accepting "installer.clan-sy.com" and a rewrite rule, that redirects all incoming requests to a redirect.php on a different host.

This is how installer.clan-sy.com is set up currently:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName installer.clan-sy.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://spring.clan-sy.com/redirect.php?file=$1 [L,R]
</VirtualHost>

[AF]

You want a domain that redirects to a redirect script? Am I the only person who doesn't think this is a little weird? Or that the extra domain is totally unnecessary?

Code: Select all

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /redirect.php?file=$1 [L,R]
</IfModule>

Why wouldn't that work fine? No need for a second domain name.

[Tobi]

Subdomains are unlimited and free anyway for Fnordia, IIRC, so there's no reason to optimize away one. Plus if we didn't have the installer.clan-sy.com domain we would have been unable to relocate the installer stuff separately from the rest of the spring site.

If you can do with one less on your host, fine, only the interface matters after all, which is that a HTTP GET installer.clan-sy.com/file should, optionally via a number of HTTP redirects / mod_rewrites, return either a 404 or the contents of 'file'.

Generally the more domains used the better, I noticed it with buildbot too: it's proven to be a bit problematic now that buildbot, backup server, deb repository and TASClient updates shared the same domain. Had I made 4 separate domains in the first place, it would have been much easier to relocate stuff.

[AF]

In which case that mod rewrite and a CNAME over at zoneedit on fnordias account from installer.clan-sy.com to spring.clan-sy.com should work.

However since someone also mentioned hosting a basic message where this site would be another domain would be needed anyway.

[AF]

There's now a springsite.darkstars.co.uk domain under the same user/pass details as spring.darkstars.co.uk

[LordMatt]

Okay, I'll set one thing up to use that and the other to use the first domain. I'll let fnordia know when it is ready.

[OvermindDL1]

If you need another server to host files for a bit then I can supply one, have plenty of space (literally, 500megs is nothing for how much I am not using, couple 500gig hard drives), and plenty of bandwidth (a shared OC-128 that is actually pretty unused). I cannot give SSH/telnet access, but if you tell me what you want done then I can give ftp, web, subdomain, etc... If you need to point a main domain directly then I can give a whole section, etc... etc...

[LordMatt]

I cannot give SSH/telnet access

No thanks then.