cvs: phpweb / README.mirror

jimw Sat Feb 9 13:46:28 2002 EDT Modified files: /phpweb README.mirror Log: various updates. warn unofficial mirrors to update no more than once every three hours. Index: phpweb/README.mirror diff -u phpweb/README.mirror:1.41 phpweb/README.mirror:1.42 --- phpweb/README.mirror:1.41 Thu Sep 20 15:15:33 2001 +++ phpweb/README.mirror Sat Feb 9 13:46:27 2002 @@ -1,18 +1,24 @@ MIRRORING OF THE PHP.NET WEBSITE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -If you want to become an official PHP mirror, please sure to +If you want to become an official PHP mirror, please be sure to read and follow these instructions carefully. You should have the consent of your hosting company (if you aren't a hosting company yourself), and be prepared for some reasonably significant bandwidth -usage (a reasonable estimate as of 2/2001 is 100MB/day). +usage (a reasonable estimate as of 2/2002 is 150MB/day). Also, we are currently only accepting new official mirrors in countries where we don't already have two active official mirrors. The PHP website requires PHP 4. -HOW TO MIRROR THE PHP WEBSITE? +If you are not an official mirror, you should not rsync from rsync.php.net +more frequently than every three hours, or you may find your ip blocked. +Also, please make an effort to only mirror those parts of the site that +you actually need. (For example, exclude the manual in all of languages that +you will not be using.) + +HOW TO MIRROR THE PHP WEBSITE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First, you need to have a rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/) installed. @@ -24,8 +30,8 @@ If /your/local/path isn't in your web document tree (why isn't it?), then symlink the phpweb/ directory to the correct place on your server. -Now, make sure your web server is set up to serve up .php3 and .php -files as PHP parsed files. If it isn't, add the mime-type to your config. +Now, make sure your web server is set up to serve up .php files as PHP parsed +files. If it isn't, add the mime-type to your config. Rename the configuration.inc-dist file to configuration.inc and edit it appropriately. @@ -42,7 +48,6 @@ TransferLog logs/access_log DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ErrorDocument 404 /error/ - ErrorDocument 401 /error/ ErrorDocument 403 /error/ # next line is only necessary if generating stats (see stats/README.stats) Alias /stats/ /path/to/local/stats @@ -62,11 +67,10 @@ to refresh your web directory. This will ensure that your web site is up to date. Something like: - 0,30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -avzC --delete rsync.php.net::phpweb /your/path + 23 * * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -avzC --delete --delete-after rsync.php.net::phpweb /your/local/path -(You don't need to update every half-hour, although it shouldn't -hurt. You should try to stagger your times a bit from the example -to help spread the load on the rsync.php.net server.) +(You should try to stagger your times a bit from the example to help spread the +load on the rsync.php.net server.) DATA REGISTERED ABOUT THE MIRROR SITES ------------------------------------------------------------------------