A new site needs the group's domain name enabled once the site is ready for public access. This page has instructions. Contact Chemistry IT if you need any assistance with any of this, please. Thank you.
Notes
- Please contact Chemistry IT if you are creating your first research group web site within Chemistry.
- Your group's domain name will be set as:
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" instructions, below.
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.
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.
1. Confirm your group's new web site on CU Blogs is ready for production (public consumption).
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!
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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 (likely hosted at CIT's Static web site service) with your group, and make sure you have the files you want.
- 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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Subject:
Hello,
Please make the appropriate DNS and blog configuration changes to have the blog at <http://blogs.cornell.edu/xray> be pointed to by a new domain name:
I am one of the netadmins for <chem.cornell.edu>, as you can see in DNSDB.
Please advise when the configurations are complete, and I understand it takes time to propagate.
Please let me know if you have any problems or concerns on this request. Thank you!
-Oliver
IT Chemistry, Manager