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New ways to download SMF

Posted by Thantos on July 18, 2007, 03:28:57 PM

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shadow82x on July 18, 2007, 03:37:19 PM said:

Very nice and very useful. Thanks a lot.

Karuhun on July 31, 2007, 01:37:01 AM said:

Great, I'll announce it in my forum:)

Dannii on July 31, 2007, 01:55:36 AM said:

Why not go the little bit further and remove index.php from the url too?

SleePy on July 31, 2007, 04:34:05 PM said:

What and wreck the SMF style SEF urls

Daniel15 on August 01, 2007, 02:34:58 AM said:

Quote from: eldʌkaː on July 31, 2007, 01:55:36 AM

Why not go the little bit further and remove index.php from the url too?

IMHO, http://www.simplemachines.org/download/latest.tar.gz would be the best URL

tertunc on February 08, 2008, 11:04:24 AM said:

Thanks

BlueMan on February 10, 2008, 08:03:16 PM said:

Nice, but better way is to make a link to file.
Like WordPress have: http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip

Darknico on February 26, 2008, 10:40:20 AM said:

very good!!

Thanks

lordtron on February 28, 2008, 04:11:58 AM said:

Would SMF ever think of having multiple mirrors?

Dannii on February 28, 2008, 04:30:24 AM said:

They do: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=223514.0

lordtron on February 28, 2008, 04:35:36 AM said:

Oh I did not know that.

How would someone be able to help by being a mirror?




Cause I am willing to become a mirror for SMF and I don't have any real bandwidth limits. I have 500GB of bandwidth a month. I only use 2GB a month, so yeah I have lots left.

SleePy on February 28, 2008, 12:12:00 PM said:

Contact the project managers
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/contact.php

lordtron on February 28, 2008, 06:16:39 PM said:

Thanks SleePy I looked for that yesterday and couldn't find it, so thanks. I just contacted them about it.

jake62 on February 28, 2008, 06:33:18 PM said:

Thanks for the help. Several forums we admin could use this info. I will pass it along.

dschwab9 on March 03, 2008, 01:02:40 AM said:

Quote from: lordtron on February 28, 2008, 04:11:58 AM

Would SMF ever think of having multiple mirrors?

SMF already has mirrors   http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=223514.0

lordtron on March 03, 2008, 04:48:06 AM said:

Yeah I saw that in a previous post. I emailed someone in SMF and I never got a reply. Cause I would be interested in providing my services in becoming a mirror for SMF.

MindTooth on March 04, 2008, 07:14:40 PM said:

Why don't have something similar to WordPress download? It is just the URI and a file called either latest.zip or latest.tar.gz.

http://simplemachines.org/latest.zip
http://simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz

Birger

lordtron on March 04, 2008, 08:35:06 PM said:

That would not be that good. Cause not everyone can run 1.1.4 or the latest version of SMF.

SleePy on March 04, 2008, 09:38:56 PM said:

Quote from: MindTooth on March 04, 2008, 07:14:40 PM

Why don't have something similar to WordPress download? It is just the URI and a file called either latest.zip or latest.tar.gz.

http://simplemachines.org/latest.zip
http://simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz

Birger

Because we don't want to copy others, we want to do things our own unique way

Besides, ours follows our format we use for when SEF urls are on.

lordtron on March 05, 2008, 12:50:44 AM said:

Im sorry but you just lost me SleePy lol

SleePy on March 05, 2008, 12:13:56 PM said:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php/topic,183391.20.html
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/index.php/latest/install/
 
See a pattern?

Dannii on March 05, 2008, 08:40:27 PM said:

Yes, a useless index.php. That's not SMF style URL, that's just a lame PHP thing.

lordtron on March 06, 2008, 05:36:38 AM said:

Just wondering, but how is it a lame PHP thing?

Dannii on March 06, 2008, 05:37:29 AM said:

Cause it has index.php in it when there are ways to get around that.

MindTooth on March 10, 2008, 01:16:12 AM said:

I think it is easier to just have http://www.simplemachines.org/latest.tar.gz.

Birger

Thantos on March 10, 2008, 02:23:12 PM said:

I like some of these idea.  The latest filename thing isn't bad and should be doable.

Re: the /index.php/ thing

While I do agree it is fugly I'm not sure if removing it is the best thing.  The download page allows you to do http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php/filename.extension to get the file.  This is easy enough to handle because it will go through index.php regardless.  The apache trick basically does a "if the file doesn't exist and the directory doesn't exist rewrite the url" but that could cause problems if I have a file in same directory as index.php and is also a downloadable file.  I don't know for sure if that case is present now or is likely in the future, so I'd need to do some evaluating.

The alternative of course is to replace /index.php/ with something like /files/ but then is that really any different?