Slight domain name change
A while back, we edited the settings of our Webserver to redirect all variants of our main domain to www.lib.ksu.edu. As of yesterday, we will now be using www.lib.k-state.edu as our canonical domain. As with the last change, all variants (ksu or k-state, with or without the www) will continue to work in perpetuity, so no documents need to be edited, nor does this change really impact much of anything other than the address in the browser address bar.
This was done to bring us into line with a proposal I wrote for the campus, suggesting that however one may feel about ksu contra k-state, it is time for our Webservers to declare a unified canonical domain so that our content is properly indexed and ranked by major search engines. Having access to a Google Search Appliance has opened my eyes to the chaos that serving inconsistently via two domains can create for a search engine, which can only hurt K-State and its findability. I proposed a simple change to a Webserver's configuration that will allow all of the variants to work indefinitely. The proposal was reviewed and deemed worthy by both the Faculty Senate Committee on Technology and Associate Vice Provost James Lyall. Adoption is entirely voluntary, of course, but it can only help a site's search engine rankings and findability.
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