Hey all,

Now that I am working with the website again, I am getting frustrated by the multiple domains acting like separate sites, with separate logins, etc. Ideally, I think every single public domain (puredata.org, www.puredata.org, www.puredata.info, pure-data.info, gem.iem.at, etc.) should redirect to one standard domain name. This is "best practice" for websites for a number of reasons:

1) one login works for all links 2) search engine ranks are higher since all links are seen as one site 3) less confusion over which name to use

An IOhannes, I know you've mentioned that you use the multiple domains for testing. You can do the same thing but creating test domains:

test1.puredata.info test2.puredata.info test3.puredata.info test4.puredata.info

Or you can also achieve the same result using multiple browsers.

gem.iem.at can easily redirect to puredata.info/community/projects/ gem (or wahtever it is).

I'll happily write the apache.conf stuff for the above. Even if it was just puredata.org redirecting, that would be an improvement.

.hc

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