From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T12:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

James Britt wrote:
> Ben Giddings wrote:
> 
>> James "ruby talk" Britt wrote:
>>
>>> There are assorted technical and practical issues with having all site
>>> grouped by a single TLD. A more significant matter, though,is that
>>> every Ruby site is run or maintained by a fan/user/enthusiast.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think the technical issues should be too hard.  Apache, at 
>> least, is happy to serve docs from multiple virtual hosts, and 
>> something can be known as say rubyforge.org, www.rubyforge.org and 
>> rubyforge.ruby-lang.org pretty easily.
> 
> 
> Serving from the same machine is one thing; servicing requests when the 
> sites are on physically distinct machines, under separate administrative 
> control, is another.  

This could be handled at a DNS level:

Add an 'A' record to the dns for ruby-lang.org which points 
rubyforge.ruby-lang.org to 66.92.150.242 (or whatever the main ip is). 
The only time this becomes an issue is when people switch ISPs or IPs 
and don't notify one another.

Or this could be handled at a Web Server level:

Have a virtualhost for rubyforge.ruby-lang.org on the ruby-lang.org 
server, and redirect the request to rubyforge.org.

Level of difficulty: 5 - Intermediate Networker / Intermediate Web Admin

Zach