So today I spent a lot of time manually merging the annvix.org mediawiki data into my linsec.ca wiki (in a new Annvix namespace). There are some various automated tools and mediawiki import/export stuff, but I didn’t have a lot in terms of pages so taking a few hours to do this manually was no big deal (and I figured it would save me time rather than fighting with some maybe-working import/export duo’s). The primary reason for this is that I wanted to keep the Annvix info alive yet (that’s 4.5 years of development “life”), but I didn’t want to maintain what was essentially a read-only wiki. This way I get both since I need to update the linsec.ca wiki when updates come out. This also knocked out another wordpress setup from the annvix blog (no need to keep that stuff around really).
I think, honestly, the biggest pain in the arse was making Apache’s rewrite rules work the way I wanted them to. I still have the annvix.org domain, and moving the subversion viewvc and repo sub-domain is silly and painful (and neither require much effort on my part), so I’ve left them but still wanted to redirect http://annvix.org/foo to http://linsec.ca/Annvix:foo. Easy enough without cPanel getting in the way and .htaccess files and whatnot, so I finally got it working after much goatee tugging. For the interested, the pertinent bits of the .htaccess file I ended up using are below (criticism welcome!)
Options All -Indexes FollowSymLinks
RedirectMatch permanent ^/repo/$ http://repo.annvix.org/
RedirectMatch permanent ^Annvix:(.+)$ http://linsec.ca/Annvix:$1
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^repo\.annvix\.org [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://linsec.ca/Annvix:$1 [L,QSA]
The Apache mod_rewrite stuff always messes me up, so I’m sure there are prettier ways to do it, but at least this seems to work in all the cases that I want.