[Imc-wales] Redirects, was: Re: [imc-uk-tech] [Imc-uk-process] Can translation be enabled and other stuff

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 08-Feb-2007 at 08:38:15PM +0000, Genny wrote:
> Sorry - was I on the wrong list?

Yeah, best deal with detail like this on imc-uk-tech :-)

> OK, what I was thinking was that when, for example, I type the address:
> 
> http://www.birmingham.indymedia.org.uk,
> 
> I get redirected to:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/
> 
> so I thought maybe we would need the same for wales and cymru: that's these two addresses:
> 
> http://cymru.indymedia.org.uk/ - redirect to our welsh front page
> 
> http://wales.indymedia.org.uk/ - redirect to our english front page

Sure, this is easy.

> But I can see that the standard format is http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/specific region, so 
> I guess we would maybe also want:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru *(see note below)
> 
> to redirect to:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/cy/regions/cymru-wales/
> (cy indicating cymraeg) so this one would be the proper address of our Welsh language front page
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/wales
> 
> to redirect to
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru-wales/
> (en indicating english like the rest of the uk pages) so this one would be the proper address of our 
> English language front page.

Sure, again, no problem.

> I realise that all these http addresses are also https for secure connections...  I presume that bit 
> is automatic.  Hope so - I'm losing track of all these addresses :o)

Actually I don't think any of these redirects (or
sub-domains) are set up to work for https, but if it's
needed it could be done.

> Mish - I'm sorry but I have no idea what an .htaccess file is, except that on the only website I've 
> ever had admin access to, the files are saved in a folder called htdocs.

An .htaccess file can, if they are permitted, override the
main apache configuration file (the web server is called
apache) and they are handy if you don't have the ability
to edit the main apach config, but we do, so they are not
needed.

All these redirects are trivial compared to the task of
the creating the Mir templates and the translation of the
templates...

Chris

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