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I recently made an account at pagebanner.wmflabs.org and received a confirmation e-mail that led me to a URI of the sort: http://wikibanner.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ConfirmEmail/[string of characters]. This URI will not load. I have tried several browsers and settings and I get error messages like "This webpage is not available ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED" and "Address Not Found. wikibanner.wmflabs.org could not be found. Please check the name and try again." I get identical messages when I try to go to http://example.example/.

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Koavf raised the priority of this task from to Unbreak Now!.
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Qgil lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to High.Jun 12 2015, 6:58 AM
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I guess this is a request for Cloud-Services. #dev.wikimedia.org has nothing to do with this.

Also, even when the problem might be important, we use "Unbreak Now!" only in very special circumstances.

@Koavf, if you need quick support you can go to Cloud-Services IRC and ask, pointing to this task.

This is a task for whoever is maintaining that particular setup of labs vagrant, not much anyone else can do to help.

valhallasw lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Jun 12 2015, 9:48 AM
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Try changing http://wikibanner.wmflabs.org in the url to http://pagebanner.wmflabs.org -- a wrong hostname in e-mails sounds like a misconfiguration of mediawiki to me.

I changed the original 'this url also doesn't work' text; please refrain from using offensive language on phabricator.

wikibanner.wmflabs.org doesn't exist but pagebanner.wmflabs.org does. If you're getting a http://wikibanner.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ConfirmEmail/%5Bstring type of url in the email, then something's probably configured incorrectly on the MediaWiki side.

I think this setup is maintained by, iirc, @Sumit (for GSoC).

I changed the original 'this url also doesn't work' text; please refrain from using offensive language on phabricator.

I didn't think anyone would be offended--this was just a reference to a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. http://pagebanner.wmflabs.org is just a test wiki whose Server path I had changed to preserve the url and hence the address mentioned in emails does not work.
The issue is purely local. I'll try to fix the wrong urls in emails.

I have disabled emails on the wiki, so emails with invalid urls may not be a problem for new users. This will in no way affect the purpose of the wiki for testing the banners, so I'm closing this.