Re: [cobalt-developers] change ip address problems

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert G. Fisher" wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > One disadvantage, of course, is that if the html is poorly written,
> > people who leave off the www when they type will possibly have
> > navigation problems.  But that's a separate issue.
> 
> It's also one of the biggest reasons I tend to like the
> rewritten address...Far easier to let the server cater to
> the self-proclaimed HTML gurus than spend hours on the phone
> teaching them how to build a web site...

I don't disagree.  Nor do I teach people how to build websites; not for
free anyway <smile>.

I've been accused before on this list of trying to make money.  I
suppose it's one of my failings <smile, again>.

> > Can you break down the rules for us one by one, so we know which we can
> > safely comment out to disable specific "feature"?
> 
> Umm...Jeff, from your past comments I'm sure you grok this as well
> as I -- but the Redirect entries in the httpd.conf are about as
> straight forward as you can get.  For those without the benefit
> of time to read their site docs it uses mod_rewrite in Apache
> to catch conditions such as anysite/admin to host:81/.cobalt/sysManage
> and somesite/siteadmin to somesite:81/.cobalt/siteManage/somesite/.
> 
> If you want to understand it better, check out http://www.apache.org
> and look under the docs page, follow the links to modules and read
> about mod_rewrite and mod_redirect. ;-)

Funny you should write this.  Yesterday, I was talking to another
list-member on the phone.  I told him what I'd written (the paragraph
double-quoted above) and I told him I fully expected someone to write
back pretty much what you've written.  I also hope someone will break
down and explain it line by line; I really don't have the time to
research everything; as I've said before I try not to answer posts from
remembered knowledge; it's too easy to leave something out and make a
mistake.  I'd like to see the answer line by line on the list, written
by a Cobalt rep, simply so beginners will understand it.  And so in the
future we can point to it definitively whenever the question arises (as
it does every two or three days).

I suppose no one else will do it and I will.  I already have a list of
small somehow obscure tips I'm working on for the knowledgebase; I've
just added this one.  Only 400 posts to go between this and the
cobalt-users list before I call myself caught up <frown>.

Jeff
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