1 Video mirror redirector
2 =======================
4 This fulfills a simple need: Redirecting people on to the closest mirror
5 of many. It was specifically written for Debconf 13, but should be useable
6 for any kind of dumb HTTP mirror.
8 It is based on http.debian.net (https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector),
9 but heavily modified, since we do not need most of what a Debian mirror needs.
10 You will most likely need some local tweaking of e.g. the mirror list; things
11 are a lot more hard-coded than in the original
22 Run ./update.sh, it will download the geoip databases, the mirrors
23 list, build the database used by the redirector, and check the mirrors
26 Check the first lines of redir.pl for the invocation (or look at the
32 Here's the Apache snippet we used during Debconf 13:
34 AddHandler cgi-script .pl
38 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /redir.pl?url=$1 [L]
43 "This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from