On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 07:54:25AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:17:20AM +0200, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:05:20AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> > > On the other hand, the configuration suggested by KatolaZ:
> > >
> > > http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan_mirror_walkthrough.txt
> > >
> > > that is:
> > >
> > > RewriteEngine on
> > > RewriteRule /devuan/merged/pool/DEVUAN/(.*) /devuan/pool/$1
> > > RewriteRule /devuan/merged/pool/DEBIAN-SECURITY/(.*) /debian-security/pool/$1
> > > RewriteRule /devuan/merged/pool/DEBIAN/(.*) /debian/pool/$1
> > >
> > > didn't work for me. I just shared the one which worked in my server, using Redirect 302.
> > >
> >
> > Dear Aitor,
> >
> > could you please elaborate on that? Many Devuan mirrors are using
> > apache and they have used the same walkthrough. If there is anything
> > we should change/improve in the walkthrough, it would be good to know.
>
> nginx or apache?
>
> There are others. This may be moot because I don't have the resources
> for a Devuan mirror anyway (just a home DSL line), but I use lighttpd.
>

There are package mirrors using lighttpd as well, and they work just
fine.

> Do I guess correctly that every web server would have to be configured
> completely differently and that it's a mug's game to try and handle all
> these possibilities in one document?
>

rewrite rules are server-specific. There is no way around that.

HND

KatolaZ

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