URL for the docs

[Simon Stewart]

Hi everyone,

Now that the DNS changes have been made, it's time to pick up the next challenge: what URL should our docs live at?

Background:

We currently host the docs on the "naked" domain "seleniumhq.org". "www.seleniumhq.org" has a permanent redirect to the naked domain. "docs.seleniumhq.org" is used by Google Apps for our domain.

The problem:

In a word: "browsers". The redirect from "www.seleniumhq.org" to "seleniumhq.org" is a permanent redirect. Browsers will cache that indefinitely. The new site is hosted on App Engine, which doesn't support hosting on the "naked" domain. That means we'd need to set up a redirect from "seleniumhq.org" to some other URL. Ideally, that'd be "www." but there's a problem there: browsers have cached the permanent redirect and will now sit in a redirect loop indefinitely. Chrome will eventually come to its senses. IE? Not so much.

That means that we could render our docs inaccessible to a surprising number of people with a careless DNS set up. 

So, which domain should we use for the main project site? The choices are:

1) Bite the bullet, and use www.seleniumhq.org

2) Sacrifice "docs.seleniumhq.org" to the main site.

3) Pick another prefix for the domain? "web"? "the"? Something else.

Opinions, and suggestions, are welcome.

Simon

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

maybe since we named the repo 'site' we use 'site.seleniumhq.org' as the sacrificial lamb?

Simon

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[Simon Stewart]

That smacks of the "impl" naming from lazy java naming.... Best idea so far, though.

Simon

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[Patrick Lightbody]

I'd prefer docs over site, personally. But we also have seleniumhq.com, so we could consider a redirect to www.seleniumhq.com. The main downside is we lose our org-ness.

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

On 14 January 2013 17:28, Patrick Lightbody <pat...@lightbody.net> wrote:

I'd prefer docs over site, personally. But we also have seleniumhq.com, so we could consider a redirect to www.seleniumhq.com. The main downside is we lose our org-ness.

{,www.}seleniumhq.com also permanently redirect to seleniumhq.org :)

I'd prefer docs.seleniumhq.org.  Pesky web.

 

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Yeah, i'll back 'docs'.  'site' just seems so redundant :)

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[Simon Stewart]

Right. I'm changing the URL for google docs for our "apps for your domain" and am going to point "docs.seleniumhq.org" at the app engine install of the docs.

Simon

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Awesome, looks good to me Simon. 

When's phase two?

- Naked domain redirect to docs.

- www. go straight to app engine too

Also phase 3 (incase you didn't read my mind) I will start the process of today:

move addons. and selenium-grid. to app engine too

-Luke

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[Simon Stewart]

We might need Patrick to handle the domain redirects. I'm not quite sure how they're set up.

Simon

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[Paul Grandjean]

listening-in, reading, I got it.  thanks guys!

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