From de222fac400f553bcbad3689cc7d15fc110125f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:03:14 +0000 Subject: Mention DNS round-robin system in the mirroring HOWTO. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@22905 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/tech/mirrors/mirror_howto.txt | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'DOCS/tech/mirrors') diff --git a/DOCS/tech/mirrors/mirror_howto.txt b/DOCS/tech/mirrors/mirror_howto.txt index 59e91c54a6..bbc5da07f4 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/mirrors/mirror_howto.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/mirrors/mirror_howto.txt @@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ are performed. Mirrors should provide their data over HTTP or FTP or both. Each official mirror will be assigned a mirror number (wwwXXX.mplayerhq.hu or ftpXXX.mplayerhq.hu where XXX is the mirror number). This mirror -number determines the hostname over which it will be reached. +number determines the hostname over which it can be reached directly. + +All mirrors are put into our DNS round-robin for the www.mplayerhq.hu and +ftp.mplayerhq.hu names and should be set up to respond to these names as well. Getting the data, mirroring script and cron setup @@ -155,10 +158,21 @@ Here is an example stanza to paste into your Apache configuration: AddDefaultCharset off + + DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs + Options FollowSymLinks Indexes + Alias /homepage /path/to/htdocs + Alias /MPlayer /path/to/MPlayer + Alias /DOCS /path/to/MPlayer/DOCS + AddDefaultCharset off + + The AddDefaultCharset directive is necessary because newer versions of Apache appear to default to defining a standard charset. This breaks our documentation translations, which are written in different encodings. +The second VirtualHost is necessary for the DNS round-robin address. + Setting up an FTP server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- cgit v1.2.3