cantusdatabase.org subdomains - DDMAL/CantusDB GitHub Wiki
This page lists the various subdomains of cantusdatabase.org, with information about what they are used for and why they were created.
- cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to
206.12.93.196. The Cantus Database, a.k.a the Production server. - www.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to
206.12.93.196. Redirects to the corresponding page atcantusdatabase.org. {any arbitrary subdomain}.cantusdatabase.org(deprecated) - For a while following the launch of NewCantus in July 2023, CantusDB's DNS configuration accepted a wildcard subdomain. This was turned off in early January 2024.- mass.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to
206.12.93.196. Redirects to the corresponding page atcantusdatabase.org.- Years ago,
mass.cantusdatabase.orgexisted as a valid address for the OldCantus Production site for a while. At some point, Google found a link to this subdomain and began crawling the site, and results formass.cantusdatabase.orgbegan appearing as results for some searches. When wildcard subdomain matching was turned off, these results stopped leading to live pages. Beginning Jan 19, 2024, when Production receives requests tomass.cantusdatabase.org, we respond with a 301 Moved Permanently and redirect to the corresponding page oncantusdatabase.org
- Years ago,
- staging.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to
206.12.88.113. The Staging server. - staging-alias.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to
206.12.88.113. Redirects to the corresponding page atstaging.cantusdatabase.org.staging-alias.cantusdatabase.orgis tostaging.cantusdatabase.orgasmass.cantusdatabase.orgis tocantusdatabase.org: it was created so that themassredirect could be tested on Staging before being deployed on Production.
OldCantus
- cantus.uwaterloo.ca - As of Jan 19 2024, a copy of OldCantus can still be accessed at this address - this URL resolves to
129.97.222.7. There are plans to redirect traffic from this domain tocantusdatabase.orgat some point in the future. - cantus2.uwaterloo.ca - Another subdomain for OldCantus.