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Bug 271920

Summary:	enable symlink on download directory
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell>
Component:	Servers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Jesse McConnell

2009-04-10 15:28:45 EDT

we have our javadoc and xref being published to our download site now but would like to have a 'stable' link to the latest version that we can update with a symlink 

ie

/home/www/jetty/stable -> /home/www/jetty/7.0.0.M0

Then we can easily update that stable symlink as we publish milestone docs.

Something we can do somehow?  I tried a .htaccess file but that didn't seem to work.

cheers
jesse

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2009-04-13 11:10:36 EDT

We intentionally disable .htaccess files because they are a huge performance burden on such a busy site.

We've had many requests over the years for allowing symlinks, and the two issues have always been a) security and b) impact on mirrors and our mirroring system.  I'll discuss these issues with the other webmasters and I'll come back with a decision.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2009-04-20 14:57:34 EDT

I've discussed this with the webmaster team, and we've concluded that allowing symlinks could cause problems with our mirroring system, and although we've configured our servers for security, symlinks could somehow be used for evil.

Can't you simply put your stable build in the 'stable' directory?

Comment 3 Jesse McConnell

2009-04-23 08:22:58 EDT

ideally we wanted to avoid having duplicate copies of stuff floating around on there at any given time but looks like we don't have much choice

we'll write a script or two to setup things into a stable directory in addition to the normal process for each published build then

cheers

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2009-04-23 09:06:40 EDT

That's an acceptable workaround.  Sorry I couldn't do anything to accommodate you.

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2009-05-07 16:18:47 EDT

Moving all these to Servers.