[Pydotorg-redesign] Experimenting with subdomains

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Sat Aug 9 11:33:34 EDT 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pydotorg-redesign-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:pydotorg-redesign-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Aahz
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:24 PM
> To: pydotorg-redesign at python.org
> Subject: [Pydotorg-redesign] Experimenting with subdomains
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> >
> > As one example, it would be easy enough to create a
> subdomain that is
> > managed by Zope and leave everything else as it is.  You could use a
> > CMS to provide a howto/whitepaper library.  If that sucks, nothing's
> > lost... the existing site still works.  If the file library
> takes off,
> > maybe we'll have other ideas of what we should be doing in
> a CMS.  Or
> > maybe we'll be happy with what we have.  Seems win-win to me.
>
> This raises another issue that has stalled some work in the past: CNRI
> still owns python.org as a domain, restricting our ability to create
> subdomains.  Until that changes (and the PSF *is* working on
> this), our
> ability to experiment is somewhat limited.

Couldn't we map a subdirectory to either redirect it to another server
or have our server apply to another server for the content?

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