[Pdweb] puredata.org -> puredata.info

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey all,

Now that I am working with the website again, I am getting frustrated  
by the multiple domains acting like separate sites, with separate  
logins, etc.   Ideally, I think every single public domain  
(puredata.org, www.puredata.org, www.puredata.info, pure-data.info,  
gem.iem.at, etc.) should redirect to one standard domain name.  This  
is "best practice" for websites for a number of reasons:

1) one login works for all links
2) search engine ranks are higher since all links are seen as one site
3) less confusion over which name to use

An IOhannes, I know you've mentioned that you use the multiple  
domains for testing.  You can do the same thing but creating test  
domains:

test1.puredata.info
test2.puredata.info
test3.puredata.info
test4.puredata.info

Or you can also achieve the same result using multiple browsers.

gem.iem.at can easily redirect to puredata.info/community/projects/ 
gem (or wahtever it is).

I'll happily write the apache.conf stuff for the above. Even if it  
was just puredata.org redirecting, that would be an improvement.

.hc


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