add techblog.wikimedia.org redirection to blog.wikimedia.org to redirects
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	RobH
	Feb 24 2015, 9:00 PM

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The techblog.wikimedia.org certificate expires on 2015-02-26. The two solutions are:

Purchase a new certificate - simple but requires we purchase and maintain it.

Push techblog.w.o to cluster (where we have the wildcard) and then rewrite it to blog.wikimedia.org (hosted by automattic) - more initial overhead to add to redirects, but end result is one less certificate to manage.

After off-task discussions involving pricing and overhead of simply adding it to redirects, the redirects option was elected.

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Mentioned In: T246507: Setup DNS to direct techblog.wikimedia.org to new Wordpress VIP hosting
rODNSbe063bbf0823: setting techblog.w.o to our cluster for rewrite
rOPUPd8a531a13122: rewriting techblog.wikimedia.org to blog.wikimedia.org
Mentioned Here: T181878: techblog.wikimedia.org should redirect to blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology

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I'll push change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/192675/ later today and test it out. If it works, I'll change our dns records for techblog to point at our apache cluster rather than automattic

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/192704/

RobH updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 24 2015, 10:32 PM

I've gotten reviews and feedback from Faidon (with corrections), implemented corrections and gotten a +1 from Brandon. As such, I plan to deploy this later today, and took the 2PM PDT window on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments

RobH mentioned this in rOPUPd8a531a13122: rewriting techblog.wikimedia.org to blog.wikimedia.org.Feb 25 2015, 10:05 PM

apache rewrite is live

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/192965/ is the dns change

RobH mentioned this in rODNSbe063bbf0823: setting techblog.w.o to our cluster for rewrite.Feb 25 2015, 11:07 PM

• MZMcBride subscribed.Feb 26 2015, 2:26 AM

The changes are live and the techblog > blog rewrite is working just fine. resolving task

See T181878: techblog.wikimedia.org should redirect to blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology too

bd808 mentioned this in T246507: Setup DNS to direct techblog.wikimedia.org to new Wordpress VIP hosting.Mar 5 2020, 11:18 PM