[tor-mirrors] No donations from mirrors

[Alain Wolf]

On the other hand, automatically including configuration statements
uploaded from a third party in to my server might not be the brightest
idea.

Just include the necessary statements it in the docs.


On 08.11.2017 16:14, Alain Wolf wrote:
> Converting the .htaccess file with http://winginx.com/en/htaccess and
> including that on my mirrors Nginx configuration seems to solve the problem.
>
> Did not very extensive testing and checking. But Nginx didn't complain
> and all the donation links seem to work. Don't know about all the other
> stuff in there.
>
> So maybe a converted Nginx config file could be included in the rsync
> along the original (aka .nginx-rewrites.conf) and the mirroring
> instructions at https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en
> updated with a Nginx configuration which includes that file.
>
>> For mirror operators that use nginx, we created a sample virtual host
>> configuration file to use:
>>
>> server {
>>     listen 10.10.10.10:80;
>>     server_name your.example.com;
>>
>>     root /var/www/mirrors/torproject.org;
>>     index index.html.en;
>>
>>     # Rewrites
>>     include     /var/www/mirrors/torproject.org/.nginx-rewrites.conf;
>>
>>     location  /dist {
>>         autoindex on;
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> If you use nginx, please ensure the text/html line in
>> /etc/nginx/mime.types matches:
>>
>> text/html                             en html htm shtml;
>
>
> On 08.11.2017 15:45, Alain Wolf wrote:
>> I think the problem is the .htaccess file. Which is read by Apache but
>> ignored by Nginx.
>>
>> The big banner on top works. The big green button links directly to
>> torproject.org and not to the mirror site
>> (https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate-pdr-hp) which in turn then
>> gets redirected to donate.torproject.org/pdr.
>>
>> My mirror does not even have donate/donate-pdr.hp
>>
>> The smaller violet "Donate" button below does not. It links to
>> donate/donate-button.html.en on the mirror site, which is there but has
>> 0 bytes.
>>
>> Also the "Donate" link in the footer of the page, below "Get Involved"
>> does not work. It links to donate/donate-foot.html.en on the mirror
>> site, which also has zero bytes.
>>
>> Then there is the big yellow "DONATE" button on the Download page. Which
>> has the same problem. 0 bytes in donate/donate-download.html.en.
>>
>> On the main torproject.org site all of those get redirect to
>> https://donate.torproject.org/ by a HTTP 302 message.
>>
>> Tested on https://tor.zilog.es/
>>
>> On 08.11.2017 13:27, Paul Templeton wrote:
>>> Seems fine from my mirror. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From:
>> "Alain Wolf"
>> <tormaster at urown.net> > To: tor-mirrors at lists.torproject.org > Sent:
>> Wednesday, November 8, 2017 3:00:26 PM > Subject: [tor-mirrors] No
>> donations from mirrors > > > Hi > > Mothership has setup a redirection
>> to a new donation website. > > The mirrored HTML pages have now zero
>> bytes. > > As mirror-servers don't have that redirection in their
>> configurations, > the buttons and links return a white-screen of death.
>>>> Regards. > > torproject.urown.net >
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