After much consideration, I’ve decided to retire yet another website: Colddirt. This site was created as an example of how to use the different parts of Django, mostly in just one afternoon. I’ve decided it is time to just take a few screenshots and retire the site - the domain is expiring, and honestly, I don’t want to spend $10 to renew the domain. So, here are the screenshots.

Sometimes all good things come to an end. There aren’t too many links going into either of these sites, but I’d like to redirect all of them to a page on my blog saying the website doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve already created simple screendumps for nostalgic purposes with the Firefox plugin Screengrab!, so the remaining simple server-side steps are:

1. Edit the DNS records from the live server to the server with the notice page is on.
2. Create a new vhost on the server the notice exists on, add old websites as ServerAlias.
3. Add a redirect in the vhost to the notice about the retired sites.
4. Reload apache config.

The below vhost entry will redirect any link to the retired sites to the notice page.

ServerName ducktracker.com
ServerAlias www.ducktracker.com blogmozaic.com www.blogmozaic.com
RedirectMatch permanent (.*)$ http://www.kelvinism.com/tech-blog/rip-old-sites/