[CASSANDRA-18327] Fix link to .tar.gz download in documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: low-hanging-fruit
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Arnout Engelen
• Created: 14/Mar/23 11:45
• Updated: 16/Mar/23 01:50

Description

On https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/getting_started/installing.html#installing-the-binary-tarball the reader is instructed to:
 
curl -OL http://apache.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au/cassandra/4.0.0/apache-cassandra-4.0.0-bin.tar.gz

However, that mirror no longer exists.

It would be nicer to use a URL such as https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/download/cassandra/4.1.0/apache-cassandra-4.1.0-bin.tar.gz, but that requires having the current Cassandra version available as a variable to asciidoc and inserting in into a code snippet, which I'm not sure is easy to do.

Alternatively we could point people to https://cassandra.apache.org/_/download.html instead of showing a curl command.