Am 6. Juni 2024 17:26:27 MESZ schrieb Konstantin Kolinko
<knst.koli...@gmail.com>:
>чт, 6 июн. 2024 г. в 17:44, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I'd like to change the existing webapps/ROOT/index.jsp to index.html and
>> remove the dynamic elements. Currently, the only truly dynamic element
>> in the whole file is this:
>>
>> "
>> <p class="copyright">Copyright ©1999-${year} Apache Software
>> Foundation. All Rights Reserved</p>
>> "
>>
>> I don't see any particular reason that the Copyright information must
>> always show the "current year". We can simply set this to "the current
>> year" during the release process.
>>
>> This will mean that the default application will be completely static.
>> Not much of an upgrade, *but* if a user would prefer to completely
>> remove Jasper, it means that the default home page will be readable.
>
>Hi, Chris!
>
>Being involved in moderation of one of our mailing lists, I suspect that
>some amount of spam is caused by our default web page,
>when it is de-facto used as the front page of a third-party web site.
>
>That is, ASF is wrongly interpreted as an owner of that web site.
>
>My thoughts were:
>a) Replace it with a simple static page that just says "It works" or similar.
>b) Make content dynamic, so that the current content is shown to
>localhost clients only,
>and show the "simple" page for anyone else.
>
>An example of "a)" is Apache HTTPD:
>
>https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/docroot/index.html?revision=1200966&view=markup
>https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=105393
>Oct 2004 (19 years, 8 months ago)
>
>My preference is for "a)".
+1 for a simple (but still nice to look at) it-works page, when bundled into
distribution package.
Maybe a link to follow up steps on that page would be good.
The old site could be used for development builds.
Or as suggested moved into another context.
I think b) would add too much surprise possibilities for admins/users to be
worth it.
Felix
>
>Maybe move the old shiny "root" page to the examples web application.
>
>Best regards,
>Konstantin Kolinko
>
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