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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:39:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Website Questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902121138200.27338-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000c01be5612$d689aea0$313d31cc@electron.nuc.net>

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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Jaime Bozza wrote:

> Hello,
>     Today I wasn't able to get to the FreeBSD website
> (http://www.freebsd.org) so I pulled up one of the mirrors
> (http://www2.freebsd.org specifically) but unfortunately, when I try to use
> the search features, it still tries to connect back to www.freebsd.org for
> the cgi scripts.  (FORM ACTION points back to www.freebsd.org)  I was just
> curious if there was a reason for this, or can it be changed to just a
> relative path.  (Use /cgi/search.cgi instead of
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi)

The search indexes are only stored on the main web server.  The indexes
are several gigabytes, so mirroring them is a bit difficult.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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