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Notes

• Please contact ChemIT Chemistry IT if you are creating your first research group web site within Chemistry.
• Your group's domain name will be set as:
  • lastname.chem.cornell.edu

New site

You are welcome to contact Chemistry IT and we'll coordinate with CIT to enable your Chemistry domain name on your new web site if it's a CU Blogs web site.

• Discuss your options and process if you choose to not use the CU Blogs service.

Alternatively, you may of course work directly with them using the appropriate portions of the "Migrating from your old web site

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Either way, don't forget to first enable your site for public access.

Instructions for Chemisty IT staff

Choice one

Do most of it yourself, and can usually complete it well within a day:

1) Request that the CU Blogs folks (at  cublogs@cornell.edu) enable access of the domain name the the specified CU Blogs site.

2) Once they've done this, you can create the CNAME using CU DNSdb. You can model it on the existing ones in DNSdb (using defaults), and it should be something like this:

View    Name    TTL    Type    Data
lastname.chem.cornell.edu     86400     CNAME     lastname.chem.cornell.edu.c1140.campuspress.com

Once the above DNS takes (after the top of the hour), use a web browser and go to the above's long "Data" address. It should return this result when the redirect is working correctly:

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<?php
header("Content-type: text/plain");


echo "OK\n";
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Verify the CNAME works by using the web browser to access the desired address, <lastname.chem.cornell.edu>.

Choice two

Ask webservices to do both of the above parts, but that may take several (4-5?) days.

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Mostly retained for historical purposes

Migrating from your old web site

Migrating from your old web site to a new web site based on CU Blogs is easy but requires some coordination.

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• You may 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.

Creating a new DNS name for a blog

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