Transition Technology: Ticket #502: patterns sub-domain for transitionresearchnetwork.org, was: Setting up specific pointer for URL

ed — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:10:03 GMT

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ed — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:17:14 GMT

owner changed from jim to chris
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auto-sets to Jim as owner, a major defect. have re-set to Chris as owner, an enhancement, in maintenance.

ed — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:06:52 GMT

any thoughts on this Chris?

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chris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:16:52 GMT

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Replying to ed:

Can we set this URL: www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/research-guidelines

to point to this location: https://cldstr.com/docs/configure-dns

While this URL: www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/

Still points to the current location.

We can't do this but the people running the site can by following the instructions here:

Create a Navigation Link that Leads to Another Site http://kb.weebly.com/redirect-pages.html

chris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:18:06 GMT

But I don't see why they would want a request for http://www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/research-guidelines to result in people getting https://cldstr.com/docs/configure-dns ?

ed — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:11:51 GMT

The WAGN developers are doing some work on the WAGN 'research guidelines' pattern language. We are agreed for the work to proceed on their website for phase 1, and review if we want to bring it inhouse in phase 2. Here from emails with WAGN sys ad:

"To do that, log into cldstr.com, and rename your site to transitionresearchnetwork.org (without the www.) and /wagn1 to /research-guidelines. Then, tell me. And then, point your DNS per https://cldstr.com/docs/configure-dns"...

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chris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:22 GMT

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Replying to ed:

The WAGN developers are doing some work on the WAGN 'research guidelines' pattern language. We are agreed for the work to proceed on their website for phase 1, and review if we want to bring it inhouse in phase 2. Here from emails with WAGN sys ad:

"To do that, log into cldstr.com, and rename your site to transitionresearchnetwork.org (without the www.) and /wagn1 to /research-guidelines. Then, tell me. And then, point your DNS per https://cldstr.com/docs/configure-dns"...

This doesn't make sense to me, currently transitionresearchnetwork.org and www.transitionresearchnetwork.org are Weebly sites -- are they now wanting the domain to be pointed to Cloudstore?

If they are asking to have the transitionresearchnetwork.org domain set up for use with Cloudstore then I'd suggest I create a sub-dmain for this, eg cloudstore.transitionresearchnetwork.org

We could run our own service, there is capacity on wiki:PenguinServer, see some suggestions here:

Going forward the thing I'd personally like to see the Network considering is the provision of network services to enable transition initiatives and projects to have easy access to green, secure, non-corporate, federated, autonomous network infrastructure, for example the provision of services such as these:

...

A Zend.To server and / or a ownCloud server and / or a sparkleshare server as an alternative to things like Dropbox and Google Drive

ed — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:05:35 GMT

The requirement is for the extension http://www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/research-guidelines to be pointed at the WAGN URL: https://cldstr.com/docs/configure-dns

My understanding is that they will need to do this on their weebly site so I'm following that up.

They are using cloudstore as they are using the WAGN application for their work.

Point taken about the cloud stuff - that's a long term funded strategic thing...

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chris — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:29:50 GMT

status changed from assigned to closed
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component changed from Drupal modules & settings to DNS
summary changed from Setting up specific pointer for URL to patterns sub-domain for transitionresearchnetwork.org, was: Setting up specific pointer for URL
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resolution set to fixed

I have set up a CNAME for them, this is the current transitionresearchnetwork.org zone file:

@ 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
www 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
research 10800 IN CNAME trnpatternlanguage.230.cldstr.com.

chris — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:31:08 GMT

Replying to chris:

@ 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
www 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
research 10800 IN CNAME trnpatternlanguage.230.cldstr.com.

Oops, there was a mistake in the above, it's now fixed:

@ 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
www 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
patterns 10800 IN CNAME trnpatternlanguage.230.cldstr.com.

And checked:

dig @A.DNS.GANDI.NET patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org +short
trnpatternlanguage.230.cldstr.com.

Also the DNS servers have been sorted, see ticket:482#comment:5 and I have updated the wiki:DomainNames page.

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chris — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:52:46 GMT

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The CNAME has been changed again, we should soon have:

@ 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
www 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
patterns 10800 IN CNAME patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org.230.cldstr.com.

This will need testing in 5 mins like this:

dig @A.DNS.GANDI.NET patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org +short

chris — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:29:32 GMT

It's sorted:

dig patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org +short
  patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org.230.cldstr.com.
  67.202.36.129

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chris — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:58:53 GMT

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Updated again:

@ 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
www 10800 IN A 199.34.228.100
patterns 10800 IN CNAME patterns.swagn.org.

But the DNS has not yet updated:

dig patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org +short
patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org.230.cldstr.com.
67.202.36.129

And it will need checking again in 30 mins or so.

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chris — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:51:50 GMT

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resolution set to fixed
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It's now updated:

dig patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org +short
patterns.swagn.org.
50.16.69.110

I think this issue is resolved again, so closing the ticket.