Mark, On 10/15/13 5:34 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 15/10/2013 22:24, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Konstantin, >> >> On 10/15/13 2:45 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >>> 2013/10/15 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>: >>>> All, >>>> >>>> I went to check-out the tcnative download links (they currently >>>> show 1.2.27 as the latest instead of 1.2.29) and clicked on the >>>> "You may download them from [HERE]" link for binaries. The >>>> selected mirror was "http://www.poolsaboveground.com/apache/"; >>>> and I got a web site for ... above-ground pools. >>>> >>>> I tried other links (just in case maybe they don't mirror >>>> tcnative) and the links for, say, Tomcat do appear to work. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure how all the mirror stuff works, but can we >>>> configure different mirrors for different downloads? Or maybe >>>> there is a misconfiguration at the mirror host and they are >>>> expecting to be serving tcnative as well. >>>> >>> >>> They are listed on this page http://www.apache.org/mirrors/ >>> >>> and appear to be a proper mirror, >>> http://www.poolsaboveground.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/native/ >>> >>> >>> > If you hit their 404 page, they redirect you to the main page of their site, >>> >>> (In theory, behaviour of a site may depend on a client >>> properties, such as client location. I just hope that it is not >>> the case here). >> >> My initial reaction was that some company had signed-up to be a >> "mirror" with no intention of actually mirroring the code but >> instead was just trying to get some links from ASF web pages to >> their own products. It was only after trying again with the same >> mirror to fetch Tomcat (i.e. apache-tomcat-*.tar.gz) instead ot >> tcnative that I saw they were a legitimate mirror and not just an >> advertisement trap. >> >> Is there any kind of mirroring agreement that providers have to >> sign to become an ASF mirror? Redirecting to a home page for a "not >> found" condition is confusing to say the least. > > https://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror > > The 404 response of this mirror indicates they have an invalid > configuration. Raise an INFRA Jira ticket and they will take it up > with the mirror, removing them if they fail to fix their configuration.
Done. Thanks. On a side note, it's interesting that ASF requires that httpd be used as the web server. That's too bad. Tomcat FTW! -chris
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