Hi Winter,

You are worried about breaking the domain, there is an easy solution to
that you would need to add a CNAME (Alias) record on DNS which will point
to the .io site so if i go to the .org it would redirect me to the alias .io

Jonathan Aquilina


On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:18 AM <win...@genial.ms> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a few days ago when reading SF webserver documentation, I saw that you
> could switch over from PHP5 to PHP7.
> It's just that we are completely HTML only without a single .php file
> remaining -- that's why I saw no use in doing it.
> If you switch over the domain would change from .net to .io, possibly
> breaking our .org domain, depending on how it is configured. This might
> also break some direct links to the .net subdomain somewhere.
> We would get https on the .io domain, but certificates are bound to the
> domain not ip, thats why I doubt it would work correctly on our .org domain.
> There is still some old files on the ftp for the webserver in the
> directory above the htdocs directory for the website -- these will need a
> backup before a switchover!
> I would not click the switch over button, without Stian and/or whoever
> controls the .org domain giving his ok.
>
> Greetings
>
> wintertime
>
>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 03. Januar 2020 um 06:31 Uhr
> *Von:* "David Lewis" <highwayofl...@gmail.com>
> *An:* "Michael T. Pope" <mp...@computer.org>
> *Cc:* "FreeCol Developers" <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes
> Lol, bizarre.
>
> Yay for Yahoo filtering.
>
> I don't know that the forums would be moved.
> I think we may just leave those as is on SF. overall I really don't see a
> need to transition absolutely everything over to github from source forge,
> just primarily the code base and the website. And also probably the ticket
> tracker to GitHub issues.
>
> I don't really see a need to abandon SF entirely.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 9:26 PM Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:19:14 +0100
>> win...@genial.ms wrote:
>> > I was anticipating of moving the website over to GitHub someday, but
>> it's kinda surprising you'd like to move over the domain so fast when the
>> other stuff is still on SF?
>>
>> Quite so.  I wish people who want to move stuff around would
>> at the very least come up with a plan that includes the hard
>> problems, like how to move the forums.  The website is easy.
>>
>> > Would it be easier to get https support for the freecol.org domain on
>> GitHub?
>>
>> That is a timely remark.  Yesterday while I was trying to work out who has
>> permission to update the SF website I came across something new[1]:
>>
>>                 Your website is currently hosted at
>>                 http://freecol.sourceforge.net with PHP 5.4
>>
>>                 To update to https://freecol.sourceforge.io and PHP 7.x,
>> click the button below.
>>                 There will be a small delay for it to take effect. You
>> may switch back if needed.
>>
>> I propose to click the button.  There is also some interesting stuff about
>> github connections which I have yet to read.  More soon.
>>
>>
>> And in the special D Blakeley section:-):  Blake, yahoo is not
>> accepting mail from my ISP, who are sending me messages like:
>>
>>         This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>>
>>         THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
>>
>>         YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
>>
>>         Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
>>
>>               <d_blake...@yahoo.com>
>>
>>         The reason for the problem:
>>         4.3.2 - Not accepting messages at this time 421-'4.7.0 [TSS04]
>> Messages from 150.101.137.19 temporarily deferred due to user complaints -
>> 4.16.55.1; see https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html'
>>
>> Given that I am with internode who have won a bunch of customer service
>> awards, and you are with yahoo, who... hasn't, I am guessing the problem
>> is at your end.  Now we just need someone to quote this email so Blake
>> sees it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike Pope
>>
>> [1] "New" as in "added since I last looked around about a year ago"
>>
>
>
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