Help us test changes to doc.rust-lang.org and static.rust-lang.org

[pietroalbini]

The infra team is planning some changes to the configuration of doc.rust-lang.org and static.rust-lang.org:

• The configuration has been ported to Terraform, and now lives in the simpleinfra repository. This provides a convenient way for the team to tweak things and for the community to inspect the configuration and provide feedback.
• The lambda functions powering the routing for both static.rust-lang.org and doc.rust-lang.org have been refactored, and their runtime has been updated to NodeJS 12.
  • Source code for the doc.rust-lang.org router
  • Source code for the static.rust-lang.org router
• The robots.txt file is now served from the latest stable release, instead of serving a stale copy.

Since most of the Rust community relies on those two websites being available and rolling back Cloudfront changes takes a while, we'd love for the changes to be tested before being deployed to production.

We applied the changes to the staging environment, reachable from the following URLs:

• https://dev-static.rust-lang.org instead of https://static.rust-lang.org
• https://dev-doc.rust-lang.org instead of https://doc.rust-lang.org

Please try it out and report any issue you see here. Note that most releases are not present on the staging environment (but at least a recent nightly, beta, and stable is available).

[jhpratt]

Will these changes take a bit to propagate? dev-doc brings me to rust-lang.org/learn, and dev-static shows a quite lengthy XML file.

[pietroalbini]

That's the same behavior doc. and static. have.

If you want to test the docs you can navigate to:

• https://dev-doc.rust-lang.org/stable/
• https://dev-doc.rust-lang.org/beta/
• https://dev-doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/

[jhpratt]

In that case all seems to be working as expected on my end.

[pietroalbini]

Deployed the changes! Thanks to everyone who took the time to test them on the dev environment