Debian Repo Redirect

Mun

First off I am not thinking of moving or closing any of my mirrors.

Is it possible to redirect a repo via something like a temp-move / perm-move in http?

server {
location /oldrepo {
rewrite ^/(.*) http://cdn.content-network.net/mirror/newmirror/$1 permanent;
}
}

sleddog

Can't see why not. Though you'll need to make your location an RE.

Maybe something like:

location ^~ /oldrepo {
        rewrite ^/oldrepo/?(.*) http://cdn.content-network.net/mirror/newmirror/$1 permanent;
}

Mun

sleddog said: Though you'll need to make your location an RE.

Don't understand the term RE in this?

Rallias

As of right now, Apt doesn't appear to follow http redirects

His RE term means regular expression.

EDIT: Gah... Google's datestamp on the article is wrong... it seems to be fixed.

sleddog

Mun said: Don't understand the term RE in this?

Sorry. RE = Regular Expression.

location /oldrepo will match only that exact location:

http://example.com/oldrepo

location ^~ /oldrepo will match anything starting with "/oldrepo", e.g.

http://example.com/oldrepo
http://example.com/oldrepo/dir/subdir/
http://example.com/oldrepo/dir/file.tar.gz
etc.

Mun

@sleddog said:
etc.

Ohh ok, thanks