Hi Ray,

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:52 AM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:22 PM Erik Huelsmann
<ehuelsmann@common-lisp.net> wrote:
>>
>> I do agree with you that using uploaded files to gitlab makes a lot of
>> sense. If I were starting from scratch without any existing mirrors
>> and my rsync backup, that seem to be the way to go.
>
>
> True. I think I'll document my preferred solution in the FAQ while you can use the solution which depends on the slightly adjusted Apache config I need to put in place. Would that slightly adjusted Apache config work for you for the uploads while still depending on GitLab to build your site?
>

I agree with your idea for the FAQ. And I appreciate having an
adjusted Apache config to serve up the files. Just let me know what
the name of the directory will be and I'll test it out soon.

I've adjusted the Apache config (and moved the /project/cmucl/public_html/downloads directory to /project/cmucl/downloads to test). You can now use the GitLab site deployment through GitLab Pages and expect the directory /project/*/downloads to be mapped into the site at https://common-lisp.net/project/*/downloads.

I will
have to update the site and all the wiki pages to point to the right
place but this should be a very simple search and replace. And let
people who mirror the site know what the new path is.

There are 2 new paths to be mirrored, (a) with the site; (b) with the downloads:

(a) /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/pages/cmucl/cmucl-site/public

(b) /srv/project/cmucl/downloads

For those reading this discussion, I've implemented another tool to help you establish a nice URL space while using the upload facility from GitLab's API as referred to in one of the earlier posts: You can create a file called ".download-map" in your project's public_html directory which maps URLs to GitLab's upload facility through temporary URL redirects. I'll need to write a FAQ about it, but in case anybody wants to play with it, I'm here to help!

Thanks for your help!
--
Ray

Regards,

Erik.