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[x] Question re: mail.hov.org domain #384

Closed amberreeves closed 6 years ago

amberreeves commented 6 years ago

From Karie I am testing a new WHO website that includes a custom Google search function of all WHO Vaccine Safety Net member sites (of which HOV is one).

This is a URL that the site pulled up on a search: https://mail.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/development-hiv-vaccines

Is there a way to prevent this from happening on our end? Where is the mail. domain coming from?

mtedeschi commented 6 years ago

I'm going to have to go back and try to figure out why this is happening. We encountered this before with another subdomain. @amberreeves, could you look back through older issues to see when this came up previously and point me to what we did to fix it?

amberreeves commented 6 years ago

let me know if you're referring to issue #362 . if not i can look further into it.

amberreeves commented 6 years ago

@mtedeschi let me know when you'll have another minute to look into this one so i can update karie

mtedeschi commented 6 years ago

Fixed.

amberreeves commented 6 years ago

@mtedeschi can you describe for me what you did so i can tell karie? did you just prevent all urls with the mail subdomain from coming up in search?

and also do we have any idea where that subdomain is coming from?

mtedeschi commented 6 years ago

I set up a redirect for the mail subdomain to the main site, which is what I did for the blog subdomain. I reached out to MediaTemple and they are not clear where those subdomains are coming from because they are not listed anywhere in MediaTemple. They blamed the DNS provider, but the DNS provider doesn't have a listing of those subdomains. If you test any other subdomain, it doesn't route there.

So, to be honest, I don't know where they're coming from, but this should at least prevent them from existing.

amberreeves commented 6 years ago

got it. sent to karie.