[tei-council] virtual hosts for HTML versions of Guidelines

[David Sewell]

The first step is to contact the U of Virginia network administrators to
be sure they do not set a limit on the number of aliases associated with
a machine. If not, I or Shayne Brandon (tei-c.org sysadmin) will submit
the request and go from there.

David

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Laurent Romary wrote:

> I would support Kevin's proposal. And the point you made about google is only
> half true. If I do use words which are "language independent" (google makes no
> difference between "reference" and "référence") I may come across any version
> of the guidelines;
>
> Since it does not hurt any other functionality and unless someone shouts
> loudly in the coming hours, I would suggest that Kevin and David proceed
> further with this.
>
> Laurent
>
>
> Le 8 mars 10 à 18:40, David Sewell a écrit :
>
> > This is not a proposal that has been floated before. It would be
> > analogous to Wikipedia's use of domains, I guess (en.wikipedia.org,
> > de.wikipedia.org, etc.).
> >
> > Should I inquire of the UVA IT people whether they impose a limit on the
> > number of host aliases they are willing to register in the DNS? Beyond
> > that it would just be a question of writing virtual host entries in the
> > Apache configuration. It would be trivially easy to change the
> > directories to which those entries point later, if we implement a
> > different naming structure.
> >
> > A counterargument might be that it's not really necessary. I just tried
> > a Google search for "référence bibliographique" with site:www-tei-c.org
> > and not surprisingly the French reference for <bibl> was the top hit.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
> >
> > > Is that not part of the work that David and James have been doing
> > > regarding stable URLs?
> > >
> > > -dan
> > >
> > > Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> > > > Would anyone oppose me asking the folks at Virginia to investigate
> > > > setting up the following virtual hosts:
> > > >
> > > > en.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > de.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > es.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > it.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > fr.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > ja.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > kr.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > > zh-tw.guidelines.tei-c.org
> > > >
> > > > which would serve the content currently at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/
> > > > http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/de/html/
> > > > etc.
> > > >
> > > > I suggest this because right now the only way to search the full text of
> > > > the Guidelines -- and only the full text of the Guidelines -- is to
> > > > search within the PDF version.  If we had a virtual host for each
> > > > languages's HTML version, we could all use our favorite search engines
> > > > to search the full text in our language of choice.
> > > >
> > > > Kevin
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> > >
> > >
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