Opened 8 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#1628 closed task (fixed)
2017.foss4g.org redirect
| Reported by: | gsteinmon | Owned by: | warmerdam |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | SysAdmin | Keywords: | sub-domain, foss4g, 2017 |
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Description
On Behalf of the FOSS4G Boston 2017 LOC, I would like to request that the 2017.foss4g.org sub-domain be pointed to our launch page here:
http://avidgeo.github.io/foss4g2017/
Based on the following documentation this should be able to happen with a CNAME records.
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-subdomain/
Please let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Guido Stein Co-Chair FOSS4G Boston 2017
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
| Component: | WebSite → Systems Admin |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
Is this url helpful for what you are saying? https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-www-subdomain/
I have also added a url foss4g.us
I have also added a cname that is waiting to be pushed with the following details: www CNAME http://avidgeo.github.io/foss4g2017/
I think you should be able to do that CNAME as well for 2017 in your dns records.
This is not my forte, so I hope you can help me resolve this ASAP.
-Guido
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
ok,
I think I figured it out.
If you use the following you should be able to point the cname correctly:
2017 CNAME avidgeo.github.io
I have set the cname record on the github side of things to match this and I hope this will work.
-Guido
comment:8 by , 8 years ago
Guido, I have setup an A record pointing 2017.foss4g.org at 199.27.79.133 which is the IP number I got by pinging avidgeo.github.io.
Sweet - it seems to be working already for me!
comment:9 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
This ticket appears to have been resolved, closing.
Guido,
My understanding is that a CNAME can only point to another domain, not a sub-url within a domain. Our usual approach to this is point DNS at our main server, and then setup a redirect there though that isn't super ideal either. If you had a distinct top level github page that we could reference (ie. http://foss4g2017.github.io/) then we could use a CNAME.
If you would still like to point to the suburl let me know, and I'll try to setup the redirect approach.
(Note, if you control the remote server such that you can do web server level redirecting, I could also just point at your server with an A record, and you could handle the name as desired, but I don't think that is possible with github pages).