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Setup DNS to direct techblog.wikimedia.org to new Wordpress VIP hosting
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Currently, https://techblog.wikimedia.org is rewritten to https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/. We need to undo that redirect and point the DNS record correctly to the Wordpress VIP ingress.

@bd808 should also talk with the Traffic team to work out any kinks in doing this and/or the expected LE cert on the Wordpress VIP side.

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redirects: Remove redirect handling for techblog.wikimedia.orgoperations/puppetproduction+0 -4
techblog.wikimedia.org: Point at upstream service provideroperations/dnsmaster+1 -1
techblog.wikimedia.org: Reduce TTLoperations/dnsmaster+1 -1
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• bd808 created this task.Feb 28 2020, 11:53 PM
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• bd808 triaged this task as High priority.Feb 28 2020, 11:53 PM
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• srodlund moved this task from Backlog to Pre-launch technical tasks on the Technical Blog board.Feb 29 2020, 1:02 AM
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Aklapper added a parent task: T242619: Set up Tech blog to share stories from the Wikimedia Technical community.Feb 29 2020, 2:51 PM
• srodlund moved this task from Pre-launch technical tasks to Launch day tasks on the Technical Blog board.Mar 2 2020, 3:30 PM
• bd808 added a comment.Mar 5 2020, 10:16 PM

Upstream instructions https://wpvip.com/documentation/vip-go/managing-domains-and-dns/#external-dns-setup

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 5 2020, 10:56 PM

Change 577370 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; owner: Bryan Davis):
[operations/dns@master] techblog.wikimedia.org: Reduce TTL

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577370

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 5 2020, 10:56 PM

Change 577371 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; owner: Bryan Davis):
[operations/dns@master] techblog.wikimedia.org: Point at upstream service provider

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577371

• bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 5 2020, 11:11 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 5 2020, 11:16 PM

Change 577373 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; owner: Bryan Davis):
[operations/puppet@production] redirects: Remove redirect handling for techblog.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577373

• bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 5 2020, 11:18 PM
• bd808 added a subscriber: • JHedden.Mar 20 2020, 9:32 PM

@JHedden kindly volunteered to be the root to help out with this.

Krinkle added subscribers: BBlack, Krinkle.Mar 20 2020, 9:43 PM

At T226044, it was planned to self-host with Phabricator. The the domain itself is to be rerouted at the DNS layer instead, and using WordPress, this means we need to preserve URL functionality by different means. Is there a plan for this in place? One option could be to import all its posts, taking care to use the same slugs, dates, and permalink structure.

In T226044#5381214, @Krinkle wrote:
In T226044#5381193, @BBlack wrote:

[..] apparently they're datestamped URIs beginning with /yyyy/mm/, examples being:

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/29/xml-dumps-resumed/

so perhaps a blanket redirect from the new techblog's ^/20[01][0-9] to a copy of the same URI on blog.wikimedia.org would be sufficient?

Yes. The old blog was a WordPress instance with fairly standard "permalink" configuration for posts, using the format /{yyyy}/{mm}/{slug}, such as https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/02/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-servers/.

There are also "archive" urls at /{yyyy}, /{yyyy}/, /{yyyy}/{mm}, and /{yyyy}/{mm}/, such as https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/.

This was moved to blog.wikimedia.org as-is, with as far as I know all arbitrary urls redirecting. The exception being the root / which redirects to the technology category instead. This means in theory posts published after the move could be accessed through this older domain as well, but.. this isn't an issue currently because this "new" blog is also "old" again (read-only as of 2018). So, if we capture anything from /2007/* to /2018/* we should be good. (See also T226044#5268590).

• bd808 mentioned this in T248205: Import historical techblog.wikimedia.org posts into new WPVIP hosted blog.EditedMar 20 2020, 9:47 PM
In T246507#5988291, @Krinkle wrote:

At T226044, it was planned to self-host with Phabricator. The the domain itself is to be rerouted at the DNS layer instead, and using WordPress, this means we need to preserve URL functionality by different means. Is there a plan for this in place? One option could be to import all its posts, taking care to use the same slugs, dates, and permalink structure.

Let's work that out at T243407: Import blog posts from old https://blog.wikimedia.org/category/technology/ into archive of the new Tech blog.

• bd808 mentioned this in T243407: Import blog posts from old https://blog.wikimedia.org/category/technology/ into archive of the new Tech blog.Mar 20 2020, 11:27 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 23 2020, 7:41 PM

Change 577370 merged by Jhedden:
[operations/dns@master] techblog.wikimedia.org: Reduce TTL

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577370

gerritbot added a comment.Mar 25 2020, 8:07 PM

Change 577371 merged by Jhedden:
[operations/dns@master] techblog.wikimedia.org: Point at upstream service provider

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577371

• bd808 closed this task as Resolved.Mar 26 2020, 12:04 AM
• bd808 mentioned this in T248598: Browsers may remember redirects for techblog.wikimedia.org.Mar 26 2020, 4:12 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 27 2020, 2:02 PM

Change 577373 merged by Jhedden:
[operations/puppet@production] redirects: Remove redirect handling for techblog.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/577373

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 27 2020, 2:10 PM
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