Silke Meyer silke.meyer@wikimedia.de wrote:
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For me, it is important that I don't have to deal with that domain any longer. Simply keeping the CNAME causes on work at all. If you at WMF want to handle the certificate question in the future, you can go ahead. At the Hackathon, I understood that Coren is no fan of such a solution though.
I think Merlijn and Platonides are just proposing to replace the CNAME with a virtual host tools.wikimedia.de on the web- server that currently handles wikimedia.de, blog.wikimedia.de, forum.wikimedia.de and www.wikimedia.de that just does a HTTP redirect to toolserver.org (which then gets handled by WMF), and that should be *very* close to "no work at all" :-).
But there would only be a difference in HTTPS compared to the CNAME solution, and as Merlijn pointed out that tools.wikimedia.de predates HTTPS on Toolserver, I'm fine with keeping the CNAME (or pointing it to the new webserver) as well.
Tim