[Box-Admins] serving files from box4

[Chris Cunnington]

On Mar 19, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 
>> On 19.03.2014, at 16:33, Chris Cunnington <websela at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It's not ideal to serve squeak.org's resources files from my website forever, so how do we serve files from box4?
>>> I'm going to post this idea and leave it for a week before I change anything.
>>> I figure a week is enough time for people to look at the question.
>>> 
>>> nginx serves files from /usr/share/nginx/.
>>> It's default is /usr/share/nginx/html.
>>> The basic directive looks like this:
>>> 
>>> location / {
>>>       root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
>>>       index  index.html index.htm;
>>>   }
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking we have directories for each service in the default directory:
>>> 
>>> /usr/share/nginx/ftp
>>> /usr/share/nginx/map
>>> /usr/share/nginx/source
>>> /usr/share/nginx/wiki
>>> /usr/share/nginx/www
>>> /usr/share/nginx/lists
>>> 
>> 
>> I propose to use the standard /var/www
>> but apart from that, yes.
> 
> Yes, and no :). As I said, I'll write proper config files. I've started to change stuff already, but editing anything on the server is a pain, due to the lack of tools (vim, screen, etc).

OK, from my point of view, that problem is solved. You're going to do it. I'll turn to other things. 

> So far I've added the classic sites-enabled/sites-available directories,
> which lets us have active and inactive per domain config files.
> 
> We'll need separate configurations for the static files of the website, and for other files (e.g. the files from ftp.squeak.org). The most important is to move the website's static files first.
> I wonder what possibilities does Altitude have here. Can it store a separate version label for each file?

I'm in a G+ hangout with Colin tomorrow. I'll ask him and report back. 

Chris 

> 
> 
> Levente
> 
>> 
>> Best
>> 	-Tobias
>> 
>> 
>>> We could add a new subdomain called "files" and serve from it.
>>> 
>>> http://files.squeak.org/map
>>> http://files.squeak.org/ftp
>>> http://files.squeak.org/source
>>> http://files.squeak.org/wiki
>>> http://files.squeak.org/www
>>> http://files.squeak.org/lists
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris

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