Establishing new canonical site (merge on 2021-07-01)

[mjpost]

I'll use this to setup the transition from aclweb.org/anthology → aclanthology.org, per the discussion in #1278.

See the TODOs here.

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[akoehn]

Please add comments to what upload and upload-mirror are supposed to do.

Sry for brevity, am on mobile

[mjpost]

So, @akoehn, any objections to the move? I would like to do it either this week (well before NAACL starts) or after NAACL.

[nschneid]

Might be nice to wait until Zotero can catch up: zotero/translators#2380

[mjpost]

This raises an important point—there may be additional dependencies on aclweb.org/anthology. I’m going to make some announcements in different places, and we’ll set a transition date of say July 1.

Until that date, both aclanthology.org and aclweb.org/anthology are identical sites that both point to aclweb.org/anthology as the canonical site. After that date, aclweb.org/anthology will redirect everything via 301 redirects, and aclanthology.org will list itself as canonical.

[nschneid]

The latest Zotero importer is now working with aclanthology.org!

[mjpost]

Excellent, thanks for the update. We'll still wait till July 1 to merge.

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[akoehn]

Todo:

• adjust htaccess for new host
• move anthology-files out of the aclantholody.org dir

[mjpost]

Why the second one? That lets us have a mirror-neutral way of indicating where the files are.

[akoehn]

Why the second one? That lets us have a mirror-neutral way of indicating where the files are.

Everything for the second point is already in place and the mirror I run has /var/www/anthology-files and /var/www/html.
The reason again it's that we want to run rsync --delete so that files we no longer create do not stay around.

[mjpost]

Got it. Can you share the relevant Apache config for this to save me some time? I'm not exactly sure how to split the root like this.

[akoehn]

@mjpost you probably don't need to update the apache config; the Makefile creates a symlink to the anthology-files directory. As long as that target is in var/www, a normal apache will follow that link.

I can't try that on the aclanthology.org server as I don't have root, but you can see whether

sudo -i
cd /var/www
mv aclanthology.org/anthology-files .
cd aclanthology.org
ln -s anthology-files ../anthology-files

still gives you a working system.

[mjpost]

Symlinking that way works. So the general mechanism is the Anthology creates a symlink in its root to ../anthology-files. This seems fairly platform neutral.

But where is this in the Makefile? I don't see it.

[akoehn]

I was sure I implemented it, but I must have forgotten to do so -- will push into this branch if you don't mind.

[mjpost]

Please do!

[akoehn]

It's a bit later than I wanted but the changes should be simple enough.

[mjpost]

@akoehn I believe we're ready for the switch, when you have time to add your review.

[akoehn]

LGTM, I'm exited :-)

[mjpost]

Hold the line, there are bound to be problems that might require an emergency PR :)