[silva-dev] https://viewvc.infrae.com/ password protected

[Marc Petitmermet]

On 27. Mai 2009, at 11:55 Uhr, Kit BLAKE wrote:

> On 27 May 2009, at 11:06, Marc Petitmermet wrote:
>
>> dear all
>>
>> since yesterday https://viewvc.infrae.com/ is all of a sudden  
>> password
>> protected. why?
>
> Because bots were indexing the viewvc, and the processor was hitting  
> 100%. We first tried putting a robots.txt file in there (because we  
> don't want all the old versions to be indexed anyway) but that  
> wasn't possible with the viewvc setup. There's no 'root'.

just guessing here: isn't there a document root specified in httpd  
configuration? check in a robots.txt in the root of the svn repository?

> The svn.infrae.com is not password protected and does get indexed.  
> Sometimes we use the Goggle "site: svn.infrae.com" command which is  
> effective.
>
> Are there lots of people out there using viewvc who don't have svn  
> access?

i use https://viewvc.infrae.com/ almost on a daily bases: i can read  
the developers' commments, i see what's been worked on and what not, i  
can easily compare versions, i can look at the code itself, etc. and  
this from any computer without having to download anything or not  
having to install anything locally expect a browser. most of these  
feature are not available on svn.infrae.com and a browser. i really  
would miss this feature if you decide to have it closed.

regards,
marc