cdimages.ubuntu.com depends on (groundlosing) Apache due to .htaccess

[Mark Schouten]

Currently, (*.)releases.ubuntu.com is depending on Apache for .htaccess processsing. This causes a requirement for all other mirrors, and more and more people running a mirror want to use something else than Apache.

Please consider pushing a index.html per directory, instead of multiple files (FOOTER.html, HEADER.html, .htaccess) so mirroradmins can use other webservers as well.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

index.html is a bit of a pain to maintain. Doesn't your web server of
choice have some kind of basic .htaccess compatibility? I know for
certain that .htaccess support is not restricted to Apache.

[Mark Schouten (mark-prevented)]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:51:41PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> index.html is a bit of a pain to maintain. Doesn't your web server of
> choice have some kind of basic .htaccess compatibility? I know for
> certain that .htaccess support is not restricted to Apache.

A crawl that creates the index.html-pages before release perhaps?

I know that nginx and lighttpd, the main competitors for Apache on this
front, do not support htaccess.

Someone has made a patch for lighttpd, but a more efficient method would
be nice.

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Mark Schouten <email address hidden>

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Well, no, we'd generate it automatically, but maintaining that *code*
would be a pain (as it would have to basically duplicate Apache's
directory index). Anyway, we'll certainly think about it ...

[bones (bones7456)]

I using nginx for ubuntu CD mirror, and nginx do not support .htaccess, I think generate an index.html is more interchangeable.