Matthew - Charlotte, NC

St. Matthew new website launch

Hi John,

As you may know, Diocesan has been working with St. Matthew on a new website, and we're planning on launching Easter Weekend. I was referred to you to coordinate the launch.

To facilitate the transition, all we need to do is update two host records for stmatthewcatholic.org to point the site to the new server.

You will need to make the following changes to your domain name host records: 

Change the www and @ host records to be A Name types that point to: 66.232.99.21

By changing only the www and @ host records, you will update the website only and not your email.

While the official launch is planned for 3/25, I'd like to perform the switch Friday, 3/23, while we're all in the office to ensure a smooth transition, if that's ok with everybody there. 

Please reply to this email or give me a call at (877) 923-0777 to confirm or if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Daniel Shamburger

FROM THE CLIENT John Poteat, St. Matthew Staff
Understood, what specific time Friday were you thinking? (in the past I would usually change this at the end of the working day right before I leave)

Thanks,
John
TO THE CLIENT Daniel Shamburger
As long Heather approves, let's plan on sometime Friday morning. Once the host record change has propagated, (generally within a few hours) http://stmatthewcatholic.org/ will redirect temporarily to http://stmatthew.diocesanweb.com/. I'll then update the site URL on our end to display stmatthewcatholic.org, do a search and replace of all internal links on the site, and install an SSL certificate. I'll be in the office until 5pm EST.

Thanks,
Daniel
FROM THE CLIENT Heather King, St. Matthew Staff
Friday morning sounds good to me- thank you both! That way Daniel will have plenty of time to address any issues before close of business Friday. Enjoy your weekend ☺
Peace,
Heather

Heather King
Office of Communications
St. Matthew Catholic Church
Charlotte, North Carolina
FROM THE CLIENT John Poteat, St. Matthew Staff
Daniel, I’m getting ready to make the changes but wanted to check in first. I tried to navigate to the 66.232.99.21 address and the new site is not currently up and running. Should I hold off on making the change?
TO THE CLIENT Daniel Shamburger
Hi John,

We have a variety of domains pointing to 66.232.99.21, so it won't actually show the St. Matthew site by navigating there in the browser. When stmatthew.org points to 66.232.99.21 it will show what is currently viewable at http://stmatthew.diocesanweb.com/

Thanks for checking!
FROM THE CLIENT John Poteat, St. Matthew Staff
OK, no worries. Currently I can navigate via browser to 159.203.171.159 and pull up our current site so I just wanted to double check.

Making the changes now….
FROM THE CLIENT John Poteat, St. Matthew Staff
Done. Screen shot below.

BTW—love the new site, huge improvement.
Thanks!
John





DNS records for stmatthewcatholic.org.:

[DELETE DOMAIN]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=listagain&domName=stmatthewcatholic.org.&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&delZoneBt=delZoneBtnGif> [List Zone XFER ACLs] <https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=listagain&domName=stmatthewcatholic.org.&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&zoneXferAclBt=list>

[HistoryLog] <https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?redirect=histlog&dispAction=start&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&DPTUserName=stmattjp1>



[xgif]Information: You have successfully updated the 'A' record


Name

Type

Data


SOA

cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net.

[UPDATE]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=showUpd&type=SOA&rrOff=0&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&recId=254250>


NS

cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net.


NS

cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net.

www.

A

66.232.99.21

[DELETE]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=showDel&type=A&rrOff=0&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&recId=526021>

[UPDATE]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=showUpd&type=A&rrOff=0&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&recId=526021>

@.

A

66.232.99.21

[DELETE]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=showDel&type=A&rrOff=1&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&recId=526022>

[UPDATE]<https://dpt.bus.att.com/dptweb/DptController?operation=RRList&action=showUpd&type=A&rrOff=1&hiddenZoneOff=1&hiddenZname=&hiddenZcrc=1586617794&recId=526022>
TO THE CLIENT Daniel Shamburger
Great to hear you like the new site, thanks!
FROM THE CLIENT John Poteat, St. Matthew Staff
Yea, big improvement!