cantusdatabase.org subdomains

This page lists the various subdomains of cantusdatabase.org, with information about what they are used for and why they were created.

• cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to 206.12.93.196. The Cantus Database, a.k.a the Production server.
• www.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to 206.12.93.196. Redirects to the corresponding page at cantusdatabase.org.
• {any arbitrary subdomain}.cantusdatabase.org (deprecated) - For a while following the launch of NewCantus in July 2023, CantusDB's DNS configuration accepted a wildcard subdomain. This was turned off in early January 2024.
• mass.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to 206.12.93.196. Redirects to the corresponding page at cantusdatabase.org.
  • Years ago, mass.cantusdatabase.org existed as a valid address for the OldCantus Production site for a while. At some point, Google found a link to this subdomain and began crawling the site, and results for mass.cantusdatabase.org began appearing as results for some searches. When wildcard subdomain matching was turned off, these results stopped leading to live pages. Beginning Jan 19, 2024, when Production receives requests to mass.cantusdatabase.org, we respond with a 301 Moved Permanently and redirect to the corresponding page on cantusdatabase.org
• staging.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to 206.12.88.113. The Staging server.
• staging-alias.cantusdatabase.org - Resolves to 206.12.88.113. Redirects to the corresponding page at staging.cantusdatabase.org.
  • staging-alias.cantusdatabase.org is to staging.cantusdatabase.org as mass.cantusdatabase.org is to cantusdatabase.org: it was created so that the mass redirect could be tested on Staging before being deployed on Production.

OldCantus

• cantus.uwaterloo.ca - As of Jan 19 2024, a copy of OldCantus can still be accessed at this address - this URL resolves to 129.97.222.7. There are plans to redirect traffic from this domain to cantusdatabase.org at some point in the future.
• cantus2.uwaterloo.ca - Another subdomain for OldCantus.