From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 27 10:32: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E83C37B43F for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8RHVfU85693; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assessing Search Engine Issues In-Reply-To: Message from "Jason C. Wells" of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:18:50 PDT." Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:31:41 -0700 Message-ID: <85689.970075901@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Does the webserver have a database engine running on it? Does the > webserver have PHP? Will it? Can it? No. No. Maybe. :) The reason it doesn't run it is fairly simple - the mirrors. If you raise the configuration bar for www.freebsd.org, you end up raising it for *all* the www[.xx].freebsd.org and secondary sites and that means getting all the admins involved to even agree to run PHP and some database engine, etc. Since that's also been a historical impediment to progress, what needs to happen, and in fact has happened, is for the content requiring such backing support to live on a centrally administered server (or servers) other than www.freebsd.org and simply be referenced from there. Local mirrors are cool, but they can't be expected to cache all possible content and there have *always* been links to other non-mirrored sites in our documentation anyway. What am I saying? I'm saying "search.freebsd.org, I think your time has come! Any ISPs out there willing to donate the machine/IP resources?" - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message