The process of going live!
colinbrislawn opened this issue · comments
What's the best way to do this?
- Solution must be sustainable / stable for many years.
- Who controls it?
Call special board meeting to review site.
Good deadline is mid August.
Def by early September.
I should get in touch with Steve.
Replace images on homepage with current season images. Make next season the current season.
We need to set up 'forwarding' to the new site.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8646650/difference-between-forwarding-and-redirection
Github pages guide to custom domains.
https://help.github.com/articles/quick-start-setting-up-a-custom-domain/
https://help.github.com/articles/about-supported-custom-domains/#apex-domains
http://geodesygina.com/GeodesyGina.html
September 2017, the domain name cameratamusica.com expires. We need to buy this from Steve before then. Here are some domain registers:
https://www.namecheap.com - Github pages guide
https://www.hover.com/ - Github pages guide
😠 Issues with hosting / DNS providers.
The 'A record' of cameratamusica.com currently points to 205.178.189.131, which is the networksolutions.net IP address. It needs to point to the github page IP address listed below.
It's a custom option which they totally support, but it's hidden:
http://www.networksolutions.com/support/a-records-ip-addresses/
Additional guide:
http://davidensinger.com/2013/03/setting-the-dns-for-github-pages-on-namecheap/
Official github documentation:
https://help.github.com/articles/troubleshooting-custom-domains/
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/
This linux command will varify if the A record is correct:
dig cameratamusica.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
http://cameratamusica.com is live!
Now we need to set up the www subdomain:
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-www-subdomain/
Test command:
dig www.cameratamusica.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
To get to this state, we waited a full day after setting the 'A records' for @ the two github IP addresses: 192.30.252.153 192.30.252.154
I also used the github settings to set the CNAME to cameratamusica.com
We are properly live. These work (and should keep working):
http://cameratamusica.com
http://www.cameratamusica.com
The suggestion has been raised about building this site on a commercial platform which is more accessible to non experts. This is a good idea, and I'll track it in another thread.