Re: [Savannah-help-public] How to redirect mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org -> mxe.cc

[Karl Berry]

Hi Volker,

    I have an issue similar to [1], 

Sort of ...

    but unfortunately
    there is no public documentation about how [1] has
    been solved in the end.
    
I'm not 100% sure, but my most recent understanding was that .htaccess
was not read at all.

    http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/* -> http://mxe.cc/*
    and
    http://www.nongnu.org/mingw-cross-env/* -> http://mxe.cc/*

PHP is definitely not enabled.  I don't think .htaccess can get the job
done, due to the permissions setup, although feel free to committing an
.htaccess with a RedirectPermanent or whatever and see if it works ...

Although we could ask the FSF sysadmins to put in RewriteRules, the
problem is that then the result is not under your control.  We just went
through this with another nongnu.org project, where the target domain
changed and it took some time to realize where the redirection was
occurring and to get it fixed.

In my experience, by far the simplest and most future-proof method is to
just go with the meta-refresh.

Best,
Karl