Re: Misconfigured mirrors (ServerName/ServerAlias)

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Hi Dave,

The following mirrors are classified as "unofficial mirrors":

    au.php.net
    au2.php.net
    be2.php.net
    cn2.php.net
    hr.php.net
    cz.php.net
    cz2.php.net
    ir.php.net
    ie.php.net
    my2.php.net
    nz2.php.net
    pt2.php.net
    ru2.php.net
    es.php.net
    ch2.php.net
    tw2.php.net
    ua.php.net

If you visit /mirror.php on any of the above mirrors, you will receive the text "This site is not an official PHP.net mirror site" (I couldn't connect to ru.php.net to check). Also, the footer on each of these sites states "This unofficial mirror is operated at:". The problem lies within an Apache misconfiguration concerning ServerName ( and ServerAlias. The mirroring guide states that a mirror should use:

    ServerName xx.php.net
    ServerAlias the.cname.you.set.up.example.com www.xx.php.net

However, in the above mirrors' cases, they are presumably doing the following:

    ServerName the.cname.you.set.up.example.com
    ServerAlias xx.php.net www.xx.php.net

Could the mirrors be informed, or possibly a new check added to the mirror checking script?

Thanks for working this out. It would be nice to have checks for such common errors as the multiviews, var handler and other stuff, which many mirrors have problems with. It is important to have xx.php.net as a ServerName, so that users will not get redirected and handled through some other address. You can get the list of mirror maintainers while logged in to master.php.net at http://master.php.net/manage/mirrors.php I thought about implementing a quick mail feature, where we can have some checkboxes in each mirror line, and we can choose to notify some maintainers about a common problem they have. It might be a good idea to implement this now. Let me know if you are interested in hooking this into the mirrors.php file in php-master-web, and have a patch to commit.

Okay, so these posts are almost a year old now, and the situation is the same. It seems /mirror-info on each mirror actually provides this information, but the mirror-check script doesn't do anything with it. Here is a patch for php-master-web that solves this once and for all: http://davephp.net/mirror-test.diff.txt

Goba

Enjoy! Dave