Tomorrow: Redmine hostname change

Martyn Taylor mtaylor at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 09:03:36 UTC 2012


On 10/16/2012 09:54 PM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Tomorrow at 4pm EST (slightly over 23 hours from when I send this
> email), I intend to flip the switch to move Redmine to a new hostname.
>
> Specifically, Redmine's new home will be
> https://redmine.aeolusproject.org/redmine
>
> (Yes, the /redmine prefix is remaining, for technical reasons.)
>
> That URL is already (incidentally) accessible. Tomorrow:
>
> a.) There may be brief downtime during the cut-over. (Not if it can be
> avoided, though.)
>
> b.) The existing Redmine URLs (www.aeolusproject.org/redmine) will begin
> to serve a 301 redirect to the new URL, on the redmine.aeolusproject.org
> subdomain. Once the change is live, you should update any
> links/bookmarks you may have, because the redirect may not last forever.
>
> c.) Because of technical limitations (multiple hostnames are not
> supported via SSL on a single IP), the static still will no longer be
> supported in HTTPS mode. (Redmine, of course, will use SSL -- it's
> taking over as the SSL vhost on our IP.)
Have you looked at using SNI?
>
> The reason for this move is that we are looking into moving the main
> www.aeolusproject.org static site elsewhere (specifically, GitHub
> Pages), in which case the /redmine link would suddenly stop working.
> Moving Redmine to its own subdomain solves this issue, and helps keep
> each app somewhat flexible in any event.
>
> Before anyone asks -- while there has been talk about using GitHub as a
> replacement for Redmine (Issues and their wiki), that is unrelated to
> this move.
>
> Best regards,
> Matt





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