[Mageia-sysadm] [Mageia-webteam] Help with redirectin mageia.ro to mageia.org/ro/

Fri Jun 10 22:54:55 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:23, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> We can do it, but before devising a complex automation scheme, can we
+> agree that all mageia.$tld stuff will be in the form of a redirection
+> mageia.org/$langcode
+>
+> Unfortunately, the lack of unification of tld -> language will prevent
+> us from having a elegant solution :/
+
+Yep. We need a map $tld => $lang
+
+> Also, what would happen for mageia.ch ?
+
+Redirect to http://mageia.org/ where the server will decide based on
+the browser preferences. Alternatively, we could display a page
+providing the country existing locales we support already. But then,
+to have a consistent scheme, I would suggest that:
+ * mageia.$tld redirects to mageia.org/?fromtld=$tld
+ * this URL will decide of the redirection (with a maintained map) if
+a single solution is there, otherwise will propose alternative
+languages;
+
+> Also, we only redirect for the main website, nothing planned for others
+> services ?
+
+Not that I know of. And I don't think we should plan further than that.
+
+Romain
+