Today's the day... londonfgss.com becomes lfgss.com

The URL is changing... it will be shorter and that makes it simpler to put into things like twitter, mobile devices, and just makes it quicker to access... it also has a subtle side effect of reducing bandwidth needs fractionally (fewer bytes in every request and header).

The change should be mostly invisible... anyone accessing londonfgss.com will automagically be sent to the correct place on lfgss.com.

The exception to this if you're using SSL and https:// . If you access londonfgss.com you will see warnings about an incorrect certificate as the certificate will now belong to lfgss.com . You can either opt to add an exception or accept the error before it redirects you to lfgss.com, or just to cancel that request and change the domain yourself to lfgss.com .

Realise that I'm doing this change at work whilst waiting for code to compile, so it may take an hour or two to take full effect and with minor service interruptions. Still... working on live servers is FUN! So I'll just start and hope to get it all done as quickly as possible.

It's so true... takes twice as long if you have to build for both 32-bit and 64-bit, and twice as long again if you're obfuscating all of the output.

'Go' might one day solve this... but it's not here, so I'll tweak the forum in the downtime.

Ah... one very small thing... titchy small, a mere trifle...

Because the domain change will invalidate all cookies that the browsers have, everyone will be logged out when they find themselves on the new domain.

You'll all have to log in again.

I'd fucking MURDER a trifle.

that'll be fun, will we get a bigger number than this?
Most users ever online was 1,492, 29th March 2008 at 16:19.

Will we now get a true snapshot of how many people use the forum and how many are aliases?

...and some cookies.

...and one very small...oh wait

Is it time to copy & paste any salient info I may've posted/read in the last week, before it gets wiped out by a lack of diligence on David's part, due to being distracted by all the shiny Xmas presents he's got in a big pile doubling as a laptop stand?

^ Evernote is good for that.

Is it time to copy & paste any salient info I may've posted/read in the last week, before it gets wiped out by a lack of diligence on David's part, due to being distracted by all the shiny Xmas presents he's got in a big pile doubling as a laptop stand?

I actually have a backup policy that works nowadays. We sync nightly to a geo-replicated remote store.

thanks david

David, I'm having issues, I can't view forum34 (LPC) and the login form in the header POSTs to londonfgss.com, so the login is displayed as successful, but once redirected back to lfgss.com I'm not logged in.

actually, i can't log in at all on lfgss.com, only the old domain.

Sweet! Thats got rid of Gabes.
Nice work DK

boohoo.

i'm logged in now, i used firebug to change the action on the login form, ha!

What David says: We sync nightly to a geo-replicated remote store.

What we hear: Blah blah blah to blah blah blah blah blah.

True.

IT shit goes right over my bonce.

Would this change be giving me weird formatting on pages? Like for instance the quick reply box I'm typing in now is pretty weird looking (text is jumbled about a bit). I also now get an extra column on forums which tells me when I last posted on a specific thread. It's throwing the formatting a bit for me.

This has only happened in the last hour or so.

Is that just me? (using Firefox 3.5.7)

yes, same here, no images/icons are loading.

it seems you need to 'trust' the certificate for static.lfgss.com

https://static.lfgss.com/images/londonfgss/statusicon/thread_dot_hot_new.gif
go there, then add an exception.

thanks gabes, was just about to post about that

It appears I needed to reboot the load balancer for the new certificate to take effect.

The operating system apparently loads certificates at startup, and since the IP address used to be associated to londonfgss.com it wasn't really having anything to do with the changes.

It should start working for people now.

that was swift..