On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Norman Gray wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Cough! I hadn't realised, until I was about to point someone to them, just
> how _very_ out-of-date the www.starlink.ac.uk web pages were. OK, I knew
> they were needing a bit of TLC, and we'd been talking about how to do it, in
> a fairly leisurely fashion, but `hot news from 2004' came as a bit of a
> shock.
>
> Would it be worth while for someone to spend 15 minutes to replace the whole
> lot with an index.html one-liner saying `nothing here right now, see
> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/software/starlink/', and add a rewrite rule to map
> all the URLs under that back to this one.
>
> It wouldn't need logos or FAQs or anything other than a date and a `we still
> exist' implication. Unless I'm very much mistaken, the .htaccess file in the
> top-level directory would be just
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /
> RewriteRule ^* index.html
Not sure if I understand what you're suggesting about the .htaccess
rules (I don't know .htaccess syntax), but but we don't want anything
which interferes with existing redirects such as
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat -> http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat
The front page could perhaps profitably be updated, but I don't see
much benefit in removing, e.g., the documentation tree which I expect
some people still link into.
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Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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