====== Domain Change ======

I originally had this site under the domain ''gm4slv.org.uk'', but last year, during the phase I was going through of wanting to revert my amateur radio activity back to my original ''G4SLV'' callsign, following the OFCOM rule changes, I took out a new domain ''g4slv.info''. 

I stopped using ''gm4slv.org.uk'' and started using ''g4slv.info''. I also took out the domain ''g4slv.cloud'' for my other VPS that I obtained to run ''gopher'' and to be a test-bed for a few things that would leave my main wiki/blog/website un-harmed.

I also changed all my Linux/FreeBSD box usernames from ''gm4slv'' -> ''g4slv''

Recently I realized that I preferred using ''GM4SLV'' on the air - so much of my radio life has been spent with ''GM4SLV'', and the few people I've got any recent involvement with in radio know me as ''GM4SLV''. I switched back to using ''GM4SLV'' as my operational callsign on-air and this week I decided to also revert all my various linux/BSD box usernames to ''gm4slv'' as well.

This was a little bit more involved than I thought, when I missed changing my membership to the ''sudo'' group on one box and then found I couldn't sudo. I couldn't su to root either, and I'd disabled root ssh logins.... got there in the end though.

That left the domain name for my web/wiki/blog server. 

I re-activated the dormant registration for ''gm4slv.org.uk'' (nobody had claimed it while it was out of my ownership) and obtained a new SSL certificate for the new domain and pointed its DNS record to the VPS hosting the web/wiki/blog. 

This VPS was also the DNS host for ''g4slv.info'' so I updated ''g4slv.info'' DNS record to point this domain to the //other// VPS (the gopher one, g4slv.cloud) and installed Apache2 purely to hold an single index.html page. This informs anyone visiting ''g4slv.info'' that they should update their bookmarks and redirects to ''gm4slv.org.uk''

Job done.

I'll let ''g4slv.info'' expire in due course and stick with ''gm4slv.org.uk'' from now on.

 

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