[Pdweb] puredata.org not working + domain names

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Aug 30 04:08:24 CEST 2004


On Aug 27, 2004, at 4:24 AM, Winfried Ritsch wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 15:02 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>> There is a strange error with the web site.  http://puredata.org  
>> causes
>> a site error but http://www.puredata.org http://puredata.info
> I could not get error. There was a server shut down yesterday because  
> of a
> power fail for some minutes so maybe restart it didnt work
>
>> http://www.puredata.info http://pure-data.info and
>> http://www.pure-data.info all work fine.
>>
>
>> This leads me to another question.  I think that we should choose one
>> 'official' domain name, and all of the rest should redirect to that
>> domain.  This is the way the pure-data.info domain is set up now, it
>> redirects to puredata.info.  My vote is for puredata.org to be the
>> official domain since its the closest to the original.
>>
>
> Here some facts for decision making:
>
> - since puredata.org points to our server but we dont host the DNS,  
> also with
> pure-data.ino, we are not as flexible as with the puredata.info in  
> case we
> have to switch servers or do other services  on th domain with  
> different
> servers.
>
> - Owners:
>  puredata.org: A.A.J. van de Ven
>  pure-data.info: Hans-Christoph Steiner
>
>  puredata.info is ownd by iem
>  pure-data.iem.at only a fall back domain owned by iem

pure-data.info already redirects automatically to puredata.org already.  
    The redirect is done on my web server so I can change it quite  
easily in case of problems, etc.

>  - sometimes  I want to use  the site as Manager and/or Member and/or
> anonymous at the same time for testing, then I just use the different
> domainnames, which
>
>> These are all of the domains that I know of:
>> puredata.org
>> puredata.info
>> pure-data.info
>> pure-data.iem.at
>>
>
> - since we configured the Server with VirtualHostMonster everyone can  
> map his
> domainname on that server and it will be used in relative links, with
> rewriting even to portions of the site. so different domainames should  
> never
> fail if they resolve the right way, so all of them are equal handled  
> in zope.
>
> I just thougt pure-data.info and puredata.info should be the same, but
> puredata.org was not expected to point to the site since van de Ven  
> was so
> kind to check the domain for us., so we dont do rewriting.
>
> But since nobody want to to some skin switching with domains we can do  
> this.
>  then all links will bookmark over puredata.org, but if anybody...
>
> So I am open to anything except pure-data.iem.at should stay for  
> debugging
> reasons.

Sounds like a good idea.  Its always good to have a test site.

.hc

>
> mfg winfried
>
>> .hc
>>
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