[Ubuntu-SG] FOSA - Software Freedom Day Singapore 2010 Meeting Summary

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:15:39 +0800
C David Rigby <c.david.rigby at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 07,June,2010 03:08 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:34:09 +0800
> > C David Rigby<c.david.rigby at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    >> On Monday 07,June,2010 02:26 PM, Billy AM wrote:
> >>      >>> we stick to wiki till SFD .. its just that I feel we shouldn't
> >>      >>> have a>
> >>> site offline message for ubuntu.sg<http://ubuntu.sg>.
> >>>
> >>>        >> Billy has a good point - it looks bad. However, lacking access
> >>>        >> to the server,
> >> I cannot set up a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection and I do not
> >> think DNS will handle what we want to do, which is redirect to
> >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SingaporeTeam from http://ubuntu.sg.
> >>
> >> Without going into details, the cleanest option is a new hosting account.
> >> That's not the least expensive option, so I am considering other
> >> possibilities.
> >>      > Why isn't something like
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Refresh_Meta_tag_and_HTTP_refresh_header
> > possible? Currently it serves out a html page, doesn't it? Don't you have
> > control over the html page?
> >
> No, lack of ftp or shell access to the server means that I cannot write
> anything there. The current Drupal install is offline due to security risks
> (patched in later versions, but without ftp or shell access...). The page
> that is visible when the installation is offline does not allow anything
> but text to be displayed.
> 
> Frustrating.

Text only? What about a <meta http-equiv ... > tag?

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin
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