This is a task to track @Slaporte's recent request to add support for wikimedia.xyz. This has recently begun being transferred into our control, so we need to add to our dns.
@Slaporte: Do we have any particular direction request for this that you are aware of? If not, I imagine we will simply have it point to wikimedia.org.
Note: Yana advised this needs to be private, so I chagned the visible/edit policies to operations, nda, and stephen.
@RobH: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines#Auto-linking_and_cross-referencing for automatic notifications in Phab by Gerritbot (needs "Bug: " prefix) :)
@RobH: I was told that the registration credentials were sent to dns-admin@wikimedia.org. Do you have everything you need to configure the domain?
Yes, I just need to add this to the end of one of the deployment days this week, since it requires an apache graceful across the cluster.
I've tried to get someone to review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/196321/ and added various folks, however no one seems to want to review.
@Slaporte: I have no idea, I thought you guys handled the domain transfers. Did you want me to ask Doneva? (Since you initially asked us to add support, I assumed you had handled that side of things.)
Ah ok. I'm happy to do the domain transfer. Could you forward to me the registrar credentials that were emailed to dns-admin@wikimedia.org? Thanks!
I got reviews from @ori and @BBlack =] (thx guys!)
As such, I've added this to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Tuesday.2C.C2.A0March.C2.A017 for the 2PM Pacific deployment slot.
I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz_(domain) and I read through this task. I still don't really understand the virtue of having http://wikimedia.xyz. I understand the what here, but not the why.
@faidon very recently remarked that we should be seeking to reduce our number of domains. This task seems to work against us in that regard.
Legal transfers domains, and we add support. Ops mgmt and legal has to have a discussion if we are to stop adding these domains.
I had locked this task down for domain troubleshooting, but then it turned out not to need it. If I removed you, sorry ;D
apache redirection support is now live.
So our cluster now supports wikimedia.xyz and redirects it to wikimedia.org.
Resolving this request.
@Slaporte please advise
If this Domain Name is not renewed by 21 Sep 2015, the domain name will be DEACTIVATED
@Slaporte thanks! let's talk some time about which domains we should add to our own DNS or not. we can add domains as "parked" domains that don't get any traffic if that's desired in cases like this
Change 243103 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
unlink wikimedia.xyz from wikimedia.com and park it
The domain has been parked in DNS and won't get traffic anymore.
The Apache redirect can be reverted.
Change 243338 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
Revert "adding support to redirect wikimedia.xyz to wikimedia.org"
@RobH ^ i'd revert your addition to the Apache config from back in the days. feel like reviewing/rebasing?
Change 243338 abandoned by Dzahn:
Revert "adding support to redirect wikimedia.xyz to wikimedia.org"
Reason:
rebase too much manual work, making a new patch instead of reverting this old one
Change 243354 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
apache: remove wikimedia.xyz redirect