Folks,
Currently visitors to osgeo.net or www.osgeo.net end up on the test server.
I would like to change these dns entries to point to osgeo1, so they will
end up on the main drupal instance. test.osgeo.org would continue to point
to the test server (osgeo2).
Are there any objections to this change?
Shawn/Howard - would one of you be willing to make the change if we proceed?
I'm leery about screwing up DNS and hate to do any but the simpliest things.
Best regards,
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
I would recommend a HTTP redirect from http://www.osgeo.net/ to http://www.osgeo.org/ instead of an alias, this is so that osgeo.org remains the only authoritative domain for OSGeo sites and you don't end up with multiple URLs (under multiple domains) pointing to the same stuff... I'm no expert in search engine ranking, but I'm sure this has to be better somehow for our ranking in search results, etc. ... and that also keeps the door open for using osgeo.net or osgeo.com for other aspects of OSGeo someday.
Daniel
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Folks,
Currently visitors to osgeo.net or www.osgeo.net end up on the test server.
I would like to change these dns entries to point to osgeo1, so they will
end up on the main drupal instance. test.osgeo.org would continue to point
to the test server (osgeo2).
Are there any objections to this change?
Shawn/Howard - would one of you be willing to make the change if we proceed?
I'm leery about screwing up DNS and hate to do any but the simpliest things.
Best regards,
--
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
You're right Daniel, it's not generally a good thing.
Could we not just park the other domains? Is losing the wildcard DNS an
option yet?
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 07:55
To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
Subject: Re: [SAC] osgeo.net dns entries
I would recommend a HTTP redirect from http://www.osgeo.net/ to
http://www.osgeo.org/ instead of an alias, this is so that osgeo.org
remains the only authoritative domain for OSGeo sites and you don't end
up with multiple URLs (under multiple domains) pointing to the same
stuff... I'm no expert in search engine ranking, but I'm sure this has
to be better somehow for our ranking in search results, etc. ... and
that also keeps the door open for using osgeo.net or osgeo.com for other
aspects of OSGeo someday.
Daniel
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Folks,
Currently visitors to osgeo.net or www.osgeo.net end up on the test
server.
I would like to change these dns entries to point to osgeo1, so they
will
end up on the main drupal instance. test.osgeo.org would continue to
point
to the test server (osgeo2).
Are there any objections to this change?
Shawn/Howard - would one of you be willing to make the change if we
proceed?
I'm leery about screwing up DNS and hate to do any but the simpliest
things.
Best regards,
--
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
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Jason Birch wrote:
You're right Daniel, it's not generally a good thing.
Could we not just park the other domains? Is losing the wildcard DNS an
option yet?
Jason / Daniel,
A redirect would be fine with me, though I'm too clueless to implement
that.
I'm agast at the idea of just parking the domains. My other complaint,
not yet raised, is that osgeo.com goes to a parking site instead of
redirecting to osgeo.org.
In the interest of ensuring this idea isn't lost I've filed it as a
ticket.
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/162
Best regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 07:55
To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
Subject: Re: [SAC] osgeo.net dns entries
I would recommend a HTTP redirect from http://www.osgeo.net/ to
http://www.osgeo.org/ instead of an alias, this is so that osgeo.org
remains the only authoritative domain for OSGeo sites and you don't end
up with multiple URLs (under multiple domains) pointing to the same
stuff... I'm no expert in search engine ranking, but I'm sure this has
to be better somehow for our ranking in search results, etc. ... and
that also keeps the door open for using osgeo.net or osgeo.com for other
aspects of OSGeo someday.
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
On 19-Oct-07, at 7:19 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Currently visitors to osgeo.net or www.osgeo.net end up on the test server.
I would like to change these dns entries to point to osgeo1, so they will
end up on the main drupal instance. test.osgeo.org would continue to point
to the test server (osgeo2).
Are there any objections to this change?
I agree, it is a good idea.
my 0.02 €
this can leave things fine both for users and search engines
if the code is not well rendered in your e-mail client use this url:
http://rafb.net/p/cOvKOt24.html
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5; url=http://www.osgeo.org">
</head>
<body>
<h1>www.osgeo.net</h1>
<p>if you're not redirected to www.osgeo.org in 5 seconds click <a href="http://www.osgeo.org">here</a></p>
</body>
</html>
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ciao
Lorenzo
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Jason Birch wrote:
You're right Daniel, it's not generally a good thing.
Could we not just park the other domains? Is losing the wildcard DNS an
option yet?
Jason / Daniel,
A redirect would be fine with me, though I'm too clueless to implement
that.
I'm agast at the idea of just parking the domains. My other complaint,
not yet raised, is that osgeo.com goes to a parking site instead of
redirecting to osgeo.org.
In the interest of ensuring this idea isn't lost I've filed it as a
ticket.
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/162
Best regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:sac-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 07:55
To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
Subject: Re: [SAC] osgeo.net dns entries
I would recommend a HTTP redirect from http://www.osgeo.net/ to
http://www.osgeo.org/ instead of an alias, this is so that osgeo.org
remains the only authoritative domain for OSGeo sites and you don't end
up with multiple URLs (under multiple domains) pointing to the same
stuff... I'm no expert in search engine ranking, but I'm sure this has
to be better somehow for our ranking in search results, etc. ... and
that also keeps the door open for using osgeo.net or osgeo.com for other
aspects of OSGeo someday.