hg-scm.{org,net,com} domain names
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Wed Dec 18 14:00:55 CST 2013
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 08:27 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:18 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I got a mail today that the hg-scm.org, hg-scm.net, and hg-scm.com
> >> domain names will be renewed in five weeks. I notice we (dsop) also
> >> have mercurial-scm.org registered.
> >>
> >> Do we need all of them? Has anybody got some statistics about how
> >> many hits we get through each domain?
> >
> > We're not currently logging which host clients are requesting, but the
> > name is showing up in the referrer field. Thus, these numbers aren't
> > terribly accurate, but should give some idea:
> >
> > # grep hg-scm.org access.log | wc
> > 1209 25363 296269
> > # grep hg-scm.net access.log | wc
> > 12 252 2811
> > # grep hg-scm.com access.log | wc
> > 209 4401 48505
> > # grep mercurial-scm.org access.log | wc
> > 1262 33932 354769
> > # wc access.log
> > 101909 2153198 27712003 access.log
> >
> > I'd say we can safely drop the .net and .com domains.
>
> Thanks for checking this, I'll let the domains expire in January!
>
> >> If we do need them, could someone configure the webserver at
> >> mercurial.selenic.com to issue 301 redirects for all the other
> >> domains back to the canonical mercurial.selenic.com name? I assume
> >> that's the site we want Google and other search engines to see as
> >> canonical.
> >
> > I can add that to my very long list of sysadmin chores.
>
> For Apache,
>
> Redirect permanent / http://mercurial.selenic.com/
>
> in each of the non-canonical virtual hosts should do the trick. That
> also redirects URLs like /foo/bar?x=y correctly so it's a simple setup.
Yep.. except there are currently no virtual hosts.
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