yodeya.com/* links are not working

Question

When I browse to http://yodeya.com/q/1 or http://mi.yodeya.com/q/1, I get a blank page. These URLs ought to (and used to) resolve to http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1, and in general, yodeya.com/* and mi.yodeya.com/* should resolve to judaism.stackexchange.com/*.

We have used these links in our four publications with, collectively, thousands of print copies in circulation. The last thing we want is for a recipient of a book to actually check out a URL found therein, only to get a blank page and conclude "eh, guess those guys don't exist any more".

Answer 1

Ok, I've updated some things in cloudflare: I expect the following links to all work (after dns propagation):

• http://yodeya.com/questions/12760
• https://yodeya.com/questions/12760
• https://www.yodeya.com/questions/12760
• http://mi.yodeya.com/questions/12760
• https://mi.yodeya.com/questions/12760
• http://meta.yodeya.com/questions/4171
• http://meta.mi.yodeya.com/questions/4171
• https://meta.yodeya.com/questions/4171
• https://meta.mi.yodeya.com/questions/4171
• https://chat.yodeya.com
• http://chat.mi.yodeya.com

And miyodeya as well:

• http://miyodeya.com/questions/12760
• https://miyodeya.com/questions/12760
• http://meta.miyodeya.com/questions/4171
• https://meta.miyodeya.com/questions/4171
• http://chat.miyodeya.com

If any of those don't, or if there are others that should, please let me know.

I'm working on generalizing the solution, so that we can easily apply it to all of the similar network site aliases.

Looks like things like https://meta.mi.yodeya.com do not work with cloudflare free because they only get a cert for *.yodeya.com, so multi level subdomains are http only.

Answer 2

After some discussion with our SRE team, I have some good news: these redirects will be working by the end of Shabbat.^* There are a couple of caveats, however:

1. We are using Cloudflare's free plan which doesn't really offer a service level agreement (SLA).

2. HTTPS is included so you can use links like: https://yodeya.com/q/1 It's possible that service will go away. If that happens, we may not be able to make them work again. Unless you really need HTTPS, I would avoid it.

I don't think either of these will be problems for you all. If Cloudflare changes their service in a way that breaks these links again, it should be a lot easier to get things worked out in the future.

On that note: I need to apologize to you all for the amount of time it took to get this all worked out. I misunderstood some information early on that led me to pursue entirely the wrong path. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for being so patient and graceful with me.

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^{* It's not that the servers are observant, but rather it can take up to 24 hours for the change to propagate. Depending on where you are, they might be working already.}

Answer 3

I just wrote a userscript to fix the issue for now.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Redirect broken Mi Yodeya links
// @version      0.1
// @author       Scimonster
// @include     http://*.*
// @include     https://*.*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    document.body.addEventListener('mousedown', function(e){
    var targ = e.target || e.srcElement;
    if ( targ && targ.href && targ.href.match(/https?:\/\/.*\.yodeya.com/) ) {
        targ.href = targ.href.replace(/https?:\/\/.*\.yodeya.com/, 'http://judaism.stackexchange.com');
    }
});
})();

(Based on this userscript.)