Project Infrastructure

The project sources, web pages, and related tools are spread over a number of different services.

As discussed at OctConf 2017, we would like to consolidate and update some of these resources so that they are easier to keep track of and manage.

Here is a summary of what we are currently using:

Hosted on jwe's dreamhost.com account

octave.org domain registration and dns records

Managed through dreamhost web hosting control panel web app thing.

octave.org

• main project web site address (http://octave.org → https://www.gnu.org/software/octave)
• email forwarding
• Doxygen pages hosted here
• other pages redirect elsewhere (gnu.org/software/octave, octave.sourceforge.io)

File: .htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^doc/octave_toc.html https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/index.html [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^hg/(.*) http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^testfailure/(.*) https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^bugs/(.*) http://bugs.octave.org/bugs/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^docs.html https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/support.html [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^packages.html https://octave.sourceforge.io [R=301,L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(doxygen|gnulib-git-mapfile|old-list-archives|stats|wiki|octave-wiki|w)
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/$1 [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks

## Manipulate query string to preserve old URLs like 
## http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=OctConf_2012
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^wiki/index\.php$ http://wiki.octave.org/%1? [R=301]

RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ http://wiki.octave.org/$1 [R=301]
RewriteRule ^wiki$ http://wiki.octave.org/ [R=301]

packages.octave.org

• web site primarily so we can have a stable address for octave's pkg -forge command

File: .htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^download/(.*) https://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/$1?download [R=307,L]

RewriteRule (.*) https://octave.sourceforge.io/$1 [R=307,L]

planet.octave.org

• Planet blog aggregator

wiki.octave.org

• MediaWiki installation

File: .htaccess

RewriteEngine on

## Manipulate query string to preserve old URLs like 
## http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=OctConf_2012
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/wiki/index\.php$ http://wiki.octave.org/%1? 

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/index\.php$ http://wiki.octave.org/%1? 


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/w.*/
RewriteCond $1 !^(favicon.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1

Known wiki issues

• While parsing non-cached <math></math> sections, the following error message occurs Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex and dvipng (or dvips + gs + convert)): ...
  • Solution: On the server copy the missing LaTeX style to the texvc build directory. cp -t /tmp ~/local/share/tex/cancel.sty

Hosted on jwe's digitalocean.com account

• login accounts: jwe jordigh

buildbot.octave.org

• master server for our Buildbot installation

hg.octave.org

This site hosts mercurial repos.

• web-octave (Alex and Kai's new web pages)
• gnulib
• mirror of master hg archive for octave
• mxe-octave (see MXE)
• various octave clones

agora.octave.org

• what remains of the agora web site

Hosted on GNU project systems

Savannah admin accounts: jwe, rik, jordigh, mtmiller

www.gnu.org/software/octave

• bug tracker
• patch tracker
• task tracker
• mailing lists
• main octave project web page
• master hg archive for octave
• limited to using CVS to upload web pages
• doxygen, octave forge (other?) pages hosted elsewhere

File: .htaccess

<FilesMatch "\.(in|m4)$">
  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "Makefile$">
  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "CVS">
  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /software/octave/

RewriteRule ^octave.pdf doc/octave-4.2.0.pdf [L]
RewriteRule ^NEWS.html NEWS-4.2.html [L]
RewriteRule ^contribute.html get-involved.html [L]
RewriteRule ^img/screenshot.png img/screenshot-octave-4-2.png [L]

RewriteRule ^doc/interpreter$ doc/interpreter/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^doc/interpreter/(.*) doc/v4.2.0/$1 [L]

ftp.gnu.org

• octave tarball sources
• windows binaries

Hosted on SourceForge

• admin accounts: oheim, i7tiol
• octave forge hg and git repos

octave.sourceforge.io

• Octave Forge web site and it's source

File: .htaccess

<FilesMatch "\.svgz$">
Header set Content-Encoding gzip
</FilesMatch>

RewriteEngine on

# use PHP files in root directory
RewriteRule ^archive\.html$ /archive.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^bugs\.html$ /bugs.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^code\.html$ /code.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^developers\.html$ /developers.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^docs\.html$ /docs.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^FAQ\.html$ /FAQ.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^function_list\.html$ /function_list.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^links\.html$ /links.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^NEWS\.html$ /NEWS.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^packages\.html$ /packages.php [PT]

# root directory of files for download
RewriteRule ^released-packages/$ https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/ [R=307,L]

# a particular packages repository
RewriteRule ^pkg-repository/(.*)/$ https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/$1/ [R=307,L]

# don't rewrite paths in the following directories
RewriteRule ^templates(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^pkg_icon(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^java(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen32(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen34(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen36(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen38(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen40(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^doxygen41(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^coda(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^octave(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^octave\.old(/|$)(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^old_packages(/|$)(.*) - [L]

# webserver of sourceforge doesn't understand END rewrite rule flag,
# so we have to check for looping instead if necessary

# forbid direct access to packages directory
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^packages(/|$)(.*) - [F]

# paths in all other sudirectories are rewritten to be under directory
# "packages"
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.+/.*) /packages/$1 [L]

# FIXME: Trailing slash is not appended for (non-existing, to be
# re-written) package directories at top level. This should be cured
# in a better way than with the following.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+) /packages/$1/ [L]


<FilesMatch "\.(php|css)$">
FileETag None
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
Header unset Expires
Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, must-revalidate"
</ifModule>
</FilesMatch>