[WNDW] Mirroring wndw.net + pre-launch

[Rob Flickenger]

Cool.  Updated in the mirror.  Pull it again to get yourself listed.  ;)

I'm off to bed now.  Seriously.

--Rob

On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Tomas Krag wrote:

> 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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