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• Build your site within CU Blogs

When you are all done:

4. Cut-over steps

Contact ChemIT if you need any assistance with any of this- thank you.

1. Confirm your group's new web site on CU Blogs is ready for production.

2. Contact CIT Webservices <webservices@cornell.edu> to do the domain name transition.

Include your group's CU Blog address and your group's domain name (which points to where your old web site is). Example:

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Subject: CNAME CU Blog change request

 Hello,

 Please make the appropriate DNS and blog configuration changes to change the blog at <http://blogs.cornell.edu/groupname> to get pointed to by <http://groupname.chem.cornell.edu>.

 Please let me know if you have any problems or concerns on this. Thank you!

 =======================

3. Confirm the cut-over worked.

4. Your old group's site is still accessible via the same WebDAV address your group used to edit it in the past. You just will not be able to see it via a web browser.

5. Once you have confirmed all is working correctly with your new web site, contact ChemIT so we can coordinate the shutdown of the group's old web site (hosted at CIT's Static web site service) with your group, and  make sure you have the files you want.

• Q: Request a copy of your old site from ChemIT, if it was hosted at CIT's static web site (as most were)?
• Once everything is confirmed with you, ChemIT will then tell CIT Webservices to shutdown, disable, and destroy the old infrastructure for your group’s old static website.

Examples

• Cut-over to your new web site

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Examples of Chemistry Research groups using CU Blogs

Completed migration

Wolczanski Research Group

• http://wolczanski.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/wolczanski/
• Place-holder URL pointing to old site (A&S static; from CIT static), retained only for "before-and-after" comparisons:
• http://oldstaticweb.chem.cornell.edu/index2.html

Marohn Research Group

• http://marohn.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/marohnlab/

Baird Research Group

• http://baird.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/bairdgroup/
• CIT/ ATC/ assisted Kelly (INC000000948841), w/ ChemIT (Oliver's) assistance (INC000000977199).

Crane Research Group

• http://crane.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/cranegroup
• Estella started this process herself, without need of ChemIT.

Lewis Research Group

• http://lewis.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/lewislab/

Lin Research Group

• http://lin.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/thelingroup/

Dichtel Research Group

• http://dichtel.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/dichtelgroup/
• CIT/ ATC/ John Udall: INC000000895224
• Private Re-pointed private domain name <http://www.williamdichtel.com/> still to CU. Had been pointing to UCLA-hosted site:
  • http://169.232.135.167/

Coates Research Group

• http://coates.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/coates/
• 6/18/14: Migrated, with DNS change.
• 4/18/14: Maria asked John Udall (ATC) on the status of the site (CIT: INC000001067904).
• 3/26/14: Oliver requested site be created, on Coates's and Maria's behalf.
• 3/18/14: Idea being considered <mjs657>

Fors Research Group

• Points to => http://blogsfors.chem.cornell.edu/fors/Current
• Points to => http://fors.chemblogs.cornell.edu/fors/
• 7/25/14: Oliver checked, and site was public and live.
• 3/21/14: Process started, with Oliver.

Hoffmann Research Group

• Points to => http://blogshoffmann.chem.cornell.edu/hoffmann/Current
• Points to => http://hoffmann.chemblogs.cornell.edu/hoffmann/
• CIT/ ATC/ John Udall: INC000000978486 (under Oliver's name)
• 7/25/14: DNS change request to CIT.

In progress

DiStasio Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/distasio
• Current => http://distasio.chem.cornell.edu/
• Feb 2015: New, for upcoming July 1st appointment.
• In progress

Petersen Research Gropu

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/petersengroup/
• Current => http://petersen.chem.cornell.edu/
• April 28, 2015: Brian intends to work with CIT's ATC to develop new web site.

Collum Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/collum/
• Current => http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/
• Resolves to messy URL => http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Home.html
• Working with Russell Algera <rfa27> to have CIT mock up to consider issues if moved to EduBlogs.
• 11/20/14:
  • Migration issue: WordPress renames all uploaded files by appending a unique number to the end of the file name. Thus, find out how important retaining current file names are to Collum for his PDFs and for same-named *.asv and *.m files. Examples:
    • <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Group_Resources.html> and <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Publications.html>.
    • http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/ED-enolates.html
    • <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Job_Plot_Files.html>, under "6.Single Aggregate-no error": data1.asv => data1.asv and data1 => data1.m.
  • Non-migration issues (errors found on existing site)
    • Link rot at <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/NMR.html>.
    • Change <http://128.253.86.160/howto.shtml> to <http://nmrscheduler.chem.cornell.edu/howto.shtml>.
    • Security concern at <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Group_Resources.html>.
    • Door code and passwords published publicly at <http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/documents/Crystal_Search.pdf>
    • Q's: Keep public? Remove? Make private?
• 8/25/14: Re-requested CIT create a mock-up. And work directly with Oliver, to start.
• • CIT's Remedy new ticket number is INC000001180953
• 7/25/14: CIT's Remedy ticket number is INC000000984409
  • See notes. CUBlogs not able to meet Group's needs?
  • From: John S. Udall
  • Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:40 AM
  • To: Oliver B. Habicht
  • Subject: Chemistry reseach group website migrations
  • Oliver,
    I was looking through the list of sites that you sent and noticed that Collum Group is still just a shell of a site with no content -- http://blogs.cornell.edu/collum/&nbsp; This site was setup for grad student Laura Tomasevich (LLT42) in 1/2013.  I presume that this was one of the first of the Chemistry research group website/blogs.   I just wanted to make you aware so that you didn't think that this one was a.) done, or b.) if you wanted to touch-base with the grad student or faculty members involved.    If you would like Academic Technologies to follow-up afterwards, please let us know.

Davis Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/davis/
• Current => http://davis.chem.cornell.edu/
• Doing by himself, for now.

See also

• Inventory of web sites and hosting locations

Arts and Science departments using CU Blogs

• http://globalsouthproject.cornell.edu/
• http://archaeology.cornell.edu/
• http://ciams.cornell.edu/

Examples from ATC (CIT)

• http://blogs.cornell.edu/bcat/