240330 - Create Virtual Host for getfirefox.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I registered getfirefox.com, and I'd like it to redirect to 

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I have just configured getfirefox.com to use the mozilla name servers at NSI, so
it should be all ready once the mozilla apache configuration changes are made.

Comment 1

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Actually how about we make that

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/get/ 

so I can track how much traffic comes from this domain ;-) 

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Are you putting up that domain somewhere and redirecting it here, or is the
domain actually pointing here and you want it redirected into that page on the
main website?

If it's the latter, then do you want it to actually redirect, or just show the
same content?

As a comparison, http://www.bugzilla.org/ is mostly displaying the same content
 as http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/ .

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Ben pointed DNS for the domain to mozilla.org's domain name servers.  I think he
wants all hits on that domain to redirect to that one page on the mozilla.org
web site.  In other words, getfirefox.com/<anything> is just a shorthand for
mozilla.org/products/firefox/get/, and users end up on the mozilla.org site in
the end.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Ah, so the domain needs to be set up in mozilla.org's DNS then as well...

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

OK, looks like the ns has changed over. 

Comment 6

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

So how do we set this up in DNS?

Comment 7

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually how about we make that
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/get/ 
> 
> so I can track how much traffic comes from this domain ;-) 

Why don't I just log getfirefox.com requests to a separate log file to which you
have access?

Comment 8

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Ok, I've set up getfirefox.com and www.getfirefox.com.  Both forward requests to
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox and log them in
rheet:/var/log/httpd/getfirefox.com/.