@phani00 thefirst task is to create a wordpress site on the AWS2 server where ISKCONConnection.org is
What is needed to create the subdomain on ISKCON.org? I assume this needs to be done by the ISKCON.org admin - DEvaprastha prabhu.
What info to give him for DNS?
what’s the subdomain’s spelling: centres, like the existing one, or centers?
We will set this up and then redirect the centres.iskcon.org site to it.
i set up DNS on AWS2 to point centers.iskcon.org to this server, including an index.php file to serve the domain name and phpinfo(). waiting for iskcon.org admin to point the domain to AWS2, which you correctly specified in your email to him.
It is setup by Devaprastha, but is going to 6050.iskcon.org
that’s because i couldn’t crerate SSL certificates before the domain pointed to the new address. it’s being redirected to the default SSL location, which is 6050. will change that very soon.
dig shows that it’s served via cloudflare. is that ISKCON.org’s doing, or are we using cloudflare now?
oops, that was the case yesterday, but today cloudflare does not show in the dig result anymore:
; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> ``centers.iskcon.org``
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63436
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;``centers.iskcon.org``. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
centers.iskcon.org``. 300 IN A 34.206.24.8
;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 07 07:35:20 UTC 2026
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
seems this happened while the DNS was being switched over only.
so it seems to be properly directed. Please set up WP there.
I went ahead and installed geodirectory and blocksy theme which is very compatible with geo
the theme you’re using is a sub-theme of blocksy, called directory.
WP made it impossible to create sub-sub-themes. now i’ll either have to create a directory-like subtheme myself, or add additional CSS to the directory’s style.css – which will have to be repeated with every update to the directory theme.
i’ll wait and see how much custom CSS we’ll have to add to get things working the way we want…
The Directory may not offer anything we need.
I’ve been offline the last few days and will be into this tonight or tomorrow.
once we know which theme you’ll want to use i’ll find out how to modify it. the new themes offer quite some mod. choices via the GUI, even though that’s not very straight-forward in many cases. if that’s not enough, we can override CSS rules. either creating a child theme or plain & simple hacking of the original theme (which has to be re-applied after every update).