Re: Debian current weekly news should use indirect link

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:15:00AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > The unchanging "current" URL is essential for us to use wwwoffle's
> > monitor feature to fetch at regular intervals, but a level of
> > indirection should be introduced
> 
> So you're essentially asking us to change the symlink into an Apache
> redirect. This is certainly possible, but not trivial to work out since it
> requires an automatic way of adjusting the apache config files and
> signalling apache to pick it up... we'll see.

It can be done with a .htaccess file which can easily be built from
the Makefiles.

Regards,

	Joey

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