Re: Discontinuing qa.php.net

On 09/09/2024 22:23, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

Maybe for some time a 308 Permanent Redirect might be a good idea.

I don't think there's any reason to qualify with "for some time"; the redirect is just as likely to be useful in 10 years time as 10 weeks. (Sadly, the idea of a permanent redirect causing a source page to rewrite itself has never caught on, outside of search engine indexes.) Luckily, redirects are cheap: point qa.php.net at the same servers as www.php.net, stick up a <VirtualHost> block with a handful of RewriteRule or Redirect directives, and there's no on-going cost. Obviously, at some point the redirects might get accidentally broken, but they would also be easy to put back if somebody noticed. -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]