[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Publish ffprobe.xsd to ffmpeg web site (trac ticket #1265)

[James Slater]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:05:14AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2012-05-16 00:47:50 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > > On date Tuesday 2012-05-15 16:50:35 +0100, James Slater encoded:
> > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Stefano Sabatini <
> stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > > is this url pretty enough ?
> > > > > > https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/ffprobe.xsd
> > > > > > https://raw.github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/master/doc/ffprobe.xsd
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, the point raised by the ticket reporter is that that url is
> not
> > > > > that nice, also it depends on the source control system we're
> using,
> > > > > and it may well change in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > That's why he proposes to have this instead:
> > > > > http://www.ffmpeg.org/schema/ffprobe.xsd
> > > >
> > > > That "pretty" URL could be configured to do an HTTP 302 redirect to
> > > > a github URL, meaning that any changes to the version control system
> > > > would merely require the redirect updating.
> > >
> > > +1, can this be done?
> >
> > Ping.
>
> I can add something on the server if someone posts that something and
> someone else reviews it.
>
> Depending on the Apache configuration (mod_alias must be enabled) -
 adding the following line to the site configuration or to an .htaccess
file (again, if this is enabled) in the root of the ffmpeg.org directory
structure should do it:


Redirect 302 /schema/ffprobe.xsd
http://raw.github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/master/doc/ffprobe.xsd


Is mod_alias or mod_rewrite available and/or enabled?