DNS-setup for portal short-name

[DistributedDoge]

I think it is handy to to have pet name for data portal tables so we can use it like so. This can be achieved with DNS configuration, and no server.

import pandas
pandas.read_parquet('http://grant-data.xyz/projects.parquet')

• Using IPNS/IPFS hash feels safer so we should still encourage this path
• Using domain is good alternative for interactive sessions, one-off scripts etc.

Which domain registrars actually provide path redirect feature needed for this setup to work?

• Namecheap does provide this feature, configuration is very simple.
• Cloudflare should according to a blog, did not try it.
• GoDaddy does not.

Would be interesting to try official-sounding-domain with Cloudflare to see how that would work.

[DistributedDoge]

So far HTTP=>HTTPS redirect from http://grant-data.xyz to IPNS bucket is working ok, if a bit slow at times.

Final puzzle to figure out is how to make HTTPS://grant-data.xyz => HTTPS://bucket-url.com work.

Because I really don't want to maintain a server just for that, I looked at some high-magic solutions:

• cloudflare page-rules
• amazon s3+cloudfront redirect

Two solutions I found so far:

• https://nelson.cloud/redirect-one-domain-to-another-using-aws-s3-and-cloudfront/#redirecting-the-old-domain-using-https
• https://www.maxivanov.io/domain-and-path-redirects-with-cloudflare/

[DistributedDoge]

Closing this one, as we went with cloudflare, and got this to work:

https://grantsdataportal.xyz/