Hello,
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
I discussed this with Marc Pelletier (Coren, cc'ed) on #wikimedia-labs
this afternoon. The final 'best idea' was the following:
- Let users on the TS redirect their tools to whatever new location
(which would probably be Tool Labs) using .htaccess,
- Expired accounts should then still be allowed to redirect using
.htaccess,
- When the TS goes down, some other server, probably in the TL cluster,
can take over the .htaccess files and keep providing redirects.
Would this (mainly the expired accounts part, which would require changes
on the TS side) be acceptable? It would allow users that want redirects to
put them in place (in a well-defined manner that will keep working after
the TS goes down), without too much effort from the end of the admins of
either the TS or TL.
Coren, if I missed/mis-summarized something, please correct me :-)
This sounds like a good and doable idea.
Currently the expired accounts get displayed via a global htaccess - we'd have to turn
this mechanism off then because if a user is in this global file his home page will not
even be accessed by the web server.
Thats why I'd have a additional suggestion - expired accounts get a default htaccess
in their home directories public_html dir if no htaccess is found.
I still then only have the problem that if a account expires and htaccess is not touched
for whatever reason the web stuff there stays active.
And: if someone burns bridges when done with the move to labs the htaccess file would get
currently deleted too - ill discuss this again and think about it (ok we could recode so
the file does not get deleted or simply gets appended to the global htaccess file...) ;).
But still - yes - good suggestion.
Cheers
Marlen/nosy