[Noisebridge-discuss] http://forum.nburl.net

[Dr. Jesus]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:03:59PM -0800, Albert Sweigart wrote:
>> I've set up a forum for Noisebridge to use at http://forum.nburl.net
>
> Thanks for Doing Things!  (even if I, personally, am *very* unlikely to
> use it and don't really see the point, it's great that people are
> creating things and building community.)
>
>> Andy, could you have forum.noisebridge.net redirect to it?
>
> The easiest thing for me is to set
>
> forum.noisebridge.net   IN      CNAME forum.nburl.net.
>
> but that requires you to configure the host to handle another vhost.
> (I'd recommend configuring it to HTTP 403 over to the canonical name.)
>
> Otherwise, I can do the HTTP redirect, but it'll be a little while
> before I can do that; today is busy at work.
>
> Let me know if you can handle the CNAME, I can do that straightaway.
>
> Also, you're aware that getting a SSL cert means that you have to pick
> one name or the other, right?  It sucks that vhosts can't have multiple
> domain names for a single cert, still.

StartCom certificates are free now, and as of 6 months ago their root
is trusted by default by all major browsers.  The usual domain
gyrations to avoid additional certificate costs can all go away now.