On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Normal shell users can execute all but one of the steps required for >>> wiki creation: root access is needed to create the DNS entry for the >>> new subdomain. >> >> Why doesn't Wikimedia just set up a wildcard domain for >> *.wikipedia.org? They all go to the same IP address anyway, right? >> Just have the application (maybe Squid) return a 404 if the project >> doesn't exist. > > It does send an error listing a project index, if you try to use a > non-existant project.
It does? I get a DNS error: http://phoonzang.wikipedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
