Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org

As discussed in Moving the site behind a CDN, we will soonish move forward with moving the site behind Fastly. In conjunction, the domains perlmonks.com and perlmonks.net will also redirect to perlmonks.org, to improve cache hit rate.

At least during the move the css.* domain will be unavailable, but as far as I understand the setup, we can later make css.perlmonks.org work again, especially for logged-in users.

For the time being, you can update your bookmarks to perlmonks.org and save the login cookies for that domain.

As for the timeline, the work is done by volunteers. I expect the DNS update and HTTP redirects to happen sometime next week.

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Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by marto (Cardinal) on May 08, 2026 at 09:41 UTC
"the work is done by volunteers. I expect the DNS update and HTTP redirects to happen sometime next week." Once again, many thanks for all your efforts, and those of everyone else involved.	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by roho (Bishop) on May 09, 2026 at 04:47 UTC
I second Marto's appreciation and look forward to the results of everyone's hard work. "It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by jdporter (Paladin) on May 11, 2026 at 14:09 UTC
As a result, it will no longer be possible to have different login sessions on different domains. If you have multiple logins you use (and I recognize that exceedingly few people do), you will need to literally log out and log in with a different set of credentials to switch. Consequently, the Domain Nodelet will be retired.	[reply]
Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by LanX (Saint) on May 14, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
What about `www.perlmonks.org` vs `perlmonks.org` ? I occasionally need to check the anonymous view of the current page. If the distinction of subdomains of `.org` is kept, so please keep a reduced Domain Nodelet too. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by hippo (Archbishop) on May 14, 2026 at 12:20 UTC
I occasionally need to check the anonymous view of the current page. There are plenty of options for that. In probably decreasing order of user-friendliness: Private Browsing Window Different browser profile Different browser entirely Different client machine entirely Log out and then back in again when done 🦛	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by LanX (Saint) on May 14, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by hippo (Archbishop) on May 14, 2026 at 12:37 UTC
Looks like this is now in effect and the site is pretty responsive once more. Great work! Fingers crossed that this is a permanent improvement. I'd like to suggest that the footer should also now include a link back to Fastly as a thank-you for their service. Some of the older links in the footer could do with an http⇨https tweak while you are in there. 🦛	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net to redirect to Perlmonks.org by kikuchiyo (Hermit) on May 14, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Something is wrong: when I enter perlmonks.org in the URL bar, Firefox throws up a big scary warning that the certificate doesn't match the domain. It's a Let's Encrypt cert for dalalb.develooper.com. However, when I enter perlmonks.com, I get redirected to perlmonks.org and there is no warning, the cert is correct for that domain.	[reply]