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Author Re: Misconfigured mirrors (ServerName/ServerAlias)
Dave Barr

2006-05-09, 6:59 pm

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>
> Thanks for working this out. It would be nice to have checks for such
> common errors as the multiviews, var handler and other stuff, which many
> mirrors have problems with. It is important to have xx.php.net as a
> ServerName, so that users will not get redirected and handled through
> some other address. You can get the list of mirror maintainers while
> logged in to master.php.net at http://master.php.net/manage/mirrors.php
>
> I thought about implementing a quick mail feature, where we can have
> some checkboxes in each mirror line, and we can choose to notify some
> maintainers about a common problem they have. It might be a good idea to
> implement this now. Let me know if you are interested in hooking this
> into the mirrors.php file in php-master-web, and have a patch to commit.


Okay, so these posts are almost a year old now, and the situation is the
same. It seems /mirror-info on each mirror actually provides this
information, but the mirror-check script doesn't do anything with it.

Here is a patch for php-master-web that solves this once and for all:

http://davephp.net/mirror-test.diff.txt

> Goba


Enjoy!

Dave
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