Changing the Domain of This Site

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ResourceMine.net

I originally set this site up as an experiment, however I have been impressed with Octopress and want to use the site as a place to dump my thoughts. resourcemine.net was a domain that I had registered, so I configured the DNS for this domain.

Over the weekend I registered jonmead.me, jonmead.com and jonmead.co.uk and I am going to use jonmead.me for this site.

After setting up the DNS for the jonmead.* URLs, these are the steps I took.

Server

The server is running in my basement on ProxMox, its a Ubuntu 12.04 container. By default this had Apache2 installed. I covered Basic Apache2 Configuration on Ubuntu earlier in the month.

There were no changes required to the server, nor my internal network or router.

Client Setup

I decided to use my MBP 15” retina as the clint I already had Git and Ruby 1.9.3 installed, so that was easy, and then followed the Octopress Setup documentation and chose to rsync to the above server.

The only configuration changes I made were in _config.yaml, as below:

# ----------------------- #
#      Main Configs       #
# ----------------------- #

url: http://jonmead.me
title: Jon Mead
subtitle: Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing
author: Jon Mead
simple_search: http://google.com/search
description:

Site Search and Google

As Octopress is a static blogging framework, its search is done by Google’s site:jonmead.me directive.

I originally set this site up to capture my thoughts, so hadn’t considered Search Engine Opimization (SEO) would be something that I needed to think of, however I wanted to make sure Google was aware of the site so the search would work.

I had configured Google Analytics for resourcemine.net, so I needed to repeat the process for jonmead.me.

Google Analytics

I logged in to http://analytics.google.com, went to the Administer tab and added a new Web Property.

This gave me a Tracking ID, which I could then add to my _config.yml. The Tracking ID is now added to each page.

The way to access the site is now http://www.jonmead.me

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