Musicians are dumb. Often, they will sign up for a hosting service before they've even registered a domain name. Sometimes they'll do it before they've even picked the name of the project. And then they'll register their domain name through GoDaddy, which doesn't support URL redirects.
When that happens, they'll invariably come to us asking us to update their domain name. Here's how we do that for now.
For examples. We'll assume that the band signed up as myband.com (myband.bombplates.com) but ended up registering mybandmusic.com instead
- Shell into the server hosting their site.
- Edit the sites vhosts file /media/data/conf.d/sites/myband.bombplates.com.conf (as root)
- Add the new domain(s) to the end of the ServerAlias line (including the www. version)
- Copy the RewriteCond/RewriteRule couplet; use the new domain. Alternatively, you may set the rewrite to redirect to whichever domain the user plans on listing in search engines
e.g.RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mybandaltdomain.(com|net)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myband.com$1 [L,R=301] - If necessary, standardize the whole vhosts file
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myband.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myband.com$1 [L,R=301]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mybandmusic.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myband.com$1 [L,R=301]<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info@myband.bombplates.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName myband.bombplates.com
ServerAlias myband.com www.myband.com mybandmusic.com www.mybandmusic.com
RewriteEnginge On
RewriteOptions inherit
</VirtualHost> - Add a symlink for the new domain
# cd /var/www/html/sites
# ln -s myband.bombplates.com www.mybandmusic.com - Restart httpd
- Update /var/www/include/this_node/sites.php to whitelist the new domain for reCAPTCHA
$all_sites['myband.bombplates.com'] = 'http://www.myband.com';
$all_sites['www.mybandmusic.com'] = 'http://myband.bombplates.com'; - It may take a few minutes for caches to clear
Here are the existing alternate domain names
Current
ServerAlias amandawintercountry.com www.amandawintercountry.com amandawintermusic.com www.amandawintermusic.comServerAlias anacristina.com www.anacristina.com anachristina.com www.anachristina.com ServerAlias austinwebbmusic.com www.austinwebbmusic.com austinwebb.com www.austinwebb.comServerAlias cherryholmes.com cherryholmes.tv www.cherryholmes.tv cherryholmes.us www.cherryholmes.us cherryholmes.net www.cherryholmes.net cherryholmes.biz www.cherryholmes.biz cherryholmesfamilyband.com www.cherryholmesfamilyband.comServerAlias davidandwhitneymusic.com daveandwhitney.com www.daveandwhitney.comServerAlias elizabethlyons.com elizabethlyonsmusic.com www.elizabethlyonsmusic.com ServerAlias emilywestmusic.com emilywestofficial.com www.emilywestofficial.com ServerAlias jungyouthmusic.com jungyouth.com www.jungyouth.comServerAlias localhoneyvintage.com lhnashville.com www.lhnashville.com ServerAlias openthecage.com openthecagegear.com www.openthecagegear.com michaelconnorsmusic.com www.michaelconnorsmusic.com ServerAlias rachelmorganperry.com everettrae.com www.everettrae.com everythingeverett.com www.everythingeverett.comServerAlias smokingpopesmusic.com www.smokingpopes.net smokingpopes.netServerAlias teammartina.com teammusicislove.com www.teammusicislove.com ServerAlias trickpony.com theponiesmusic.com www.theponiesmusic.comServerAlias whitneyduncanmusic.com whitneyduncan.com www.whitneyduncan.com ServerAlias bgmetalsinc.com www.bgmetalsinc.com bgmetals.com www.bgmetals.com ServerAlias savannahleemusic.com savannahbrymer.com www.savannahbrymer.com ServerAlias mallaryhope.com www.mallaryhope.com mallaryhopemusic.com www.mallaryhopemusic.com
Defunct (only on bands2/bands 3)
ServerAlias ejswanson.com www.ejswanson.org ejswanson.org ServerAlias emilywestmusic.com emilywestofficial.com www.emilywestofficial.com ServerAlias blackfootgypsies.com theblackfootgypsies.com www.theblackfootgypsies.com ServerAlias whitneyduncanmusic.com whitneyduncan.com www.whitneyduncan.com ServerAlias www.westonjamesmusic.com ServerAlias www.janinestange.com ServerAlias www.peopleonahill.com ServerAlias www.fourtwelvemusic.com ServerAlias www.davidashleyonline.com ServerAlias wherethepartyat.com erikdylanmusic.com www.wherethepartyat.com ServerAlias zachdylancountry.com zachdylan.net www.zachdylan.net
TODO: eventually, we should find a way to automate this. (e.g. we could set up a domain server that points WHATEVER.TLD to www.WHATEVER.TLD)