IT Professionals,
The following mailing has been sent to the owners and contacts of IU Sitehost and Pages accounts. Beginning Tuesday, July 20, tilde URLs (e.g., www.iu.edu/~username) on Sitehost and Pages will no longer be automatically redirected to their username.sitehost.iu.edu equivalent (or virtual host, if applicable). Instead, tilde URLs will be redirected to a 404 error page. Sites with scripts, includes, or embeds (such as MachForm) that reference a tilde URL are encouraged to update them before July 20.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of the Enterprise Web Technical Services and Web Services Support teams
About Sitehost retirement: https://kb.iu.edu/d/bgub
About Pages retirement: https://kb.iu.edu/d/bgvi
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Greetings IU Sitehost owners and contacts,
Beginning Tuesday, July 20, tilde URLs (e.g., www.iu.edu/~username) on Sitehost will no longer be automatically redirected to their username.sitehost.iu.edu equivalent (or virtual host, if applicable). Instead, tilde URLs will be redirected to a 404 error page.
More information and additional resources, including a new impact dashboard showing a snapshot of incoming tilde URL traffic, are available at About the tilde URL retirement on Sitehost.
If you have scripts, includes, or embeds (such as MachForm) that reference a tilde URL, they will not work as expected after this change takes effect. Please check your pages for any links to tilde URLs on IU websites and update them before July 20. Also check that tilde URLs are no longer being used in communications or advertisements.
If you have questions, please contact Support Center Tier 2 (Web Services Support) at sct2@iu.edu, or via phone: 812-856-SCT2 (7282) option 4, or 317-278-SCT2 (7282) option 4.
Thank you,
The Enterprise Web Technical Services and Web Services Support teams
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