[WNDW] Mirroring wndw.net + pre-launch

[Tomas Krag]

Hi there,

dk.wndw.net is up and running

cheers

/tomas


Rob Flickenger wrote:

>Hello, all--
>
>Here's how to mirror wndw.net:
>
>* Download http://wndw.net/mirror/pdf.tgz and extract it in your  
>document root.  This contains the PDFs for the book, including the  
>chapter breakdowns.  You'll only need to download this once; it's  
>quite big and won't change until the next edition.
>
>* Download http://wndw.net/mirror/wndw-current.tgz, and extract it in  
>your document root.  This is the rest of the website.  Do this as  
>often as you like, not more than once per day.
>
>* IMPORTANT: Set up a rewrite rule that redirects requests from / 
>wiki/ to http://wndw.net/wiki/.  This is necessary so we only have  
>one authoritative wiki.  A copy still goes into the mirror archive so  
>we also get a distributed backup.  I set up the redirector for  
>us.wndw.net by putting this in the .htaccess in my htdocs directory:
>
>Redirect /wiki/                 http://wndw.net/wiki/
>
>Your mileage may vary with your webserver version.  Email me if you  
>get stuck here.
>
>* To insert your own ads on your mirror, copy ads.html.example to  
>ads.html, and edit accordingly.  This file is included by the other  
>html and is the only file that needs to be edited.  When you extract  
>the wndw-current.tgz in the future, be sure to exclude your revised  
>ads.html if you are using it.  I use this command from within my  
>htdocs directory:
>
>tar zvxf ../mirror/wndw-current.tgz --exclude='ads.html'
>
>Once you have set all of this up, drop me an email and I'll put in a  
>DNS entry to point to your mirror (like us.wndw.net, etc.)
>
>That's it!  We launch in T-4 hours.  Let me know ASAP if you have any  
>issues with the site.
>
>Congrats, everybody!
>
>--Rob
>
>
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