[NCUC E-team] Ning migration

[Joly MacFie]

I'd say just kill the ning. You can always examine your logs for 404's
and put in the appropriate redirects as needed.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
<ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 07:58:13AM +0200, Tapani Tarvainen (ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info) wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:22:14PM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:
>>
>> > > Does Ning make it easy to change the URL - say,
>> > > leaving the Ning site as old.ncuc.org for a while?
>> > >
>> > I think we're stuck with ncuc.ning.com (ncuc.org points to that URL).
>>
>> That would be fine, but it seems there are hardcoded links
>> to ncuc.org in there, so if we move ncuc.org to our new site,
>> Ning will no longer work (even as ncuc.ning.com).
>
> Actually it doesn't seem work even now as ncuc.ning.com
> (and strictly speaking ncuc.org does not point to that URL
> but to the same IP address, it's an A record).
> And I can't find any way to change the visible URL
> in the Manage tools there.
>
> That would mean we'll really have to do it at one stroke.
> That is, build the new site as, say, new.ncuc.org and as soon
> as it's ready, change ncuc.org to point there and killing the
> old site for good at the same time.
> Oh well, I guess it'd be better to do it that way anyway,
> I'd just been happier to have a backup plan.
>
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