[Bug-gnupedia] servers and pictures

[Tom Chance]

In terms of hosting, you'd have to have each mirror
holding the entire 'pedia and they'd have to be well
set up servers that could download the master copy
from (I assume) gnu.org so that you don't get
different versions on each server.

So you'd have a mySQL server holding all the articles,
a cluster of perl interpreters and then a pie sized
ftp server with all the images on, with a simple html
web server as the actual site. To submit an article
you'd first of all have to become a member, with a
picture directory on the ftp server. You'd then upload
articles as text via a cgi form, or something else for
those without that ability, which would be shoved into
the SQL server.Any pictures would be referenced to
your member ftp directory with a standard "a href" tag
in the middle of the text (I'm sure even the most
clueless of contributors could manage that!) which
wouldn't be altered by the SQL or perl machines at
all. 

The thing is that you can't have people hosting the
pictures themselves (they'd start putting them on Xoom
or other useless places).

Perl would also let people customise their articles
more, and it has so many more capabilities than XML.
Look how well it, with SQL, as served sites such as /.

This process may be more complicated than a simple XML
setup with links all over the place, but it would keep
the 'pedia together so it wouldn't become another www.

Thom Chance

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