Client Team - First Round - ASAP
- Add CNAME for admin.originalsite.com to point to global.prod.fastly.net
- Add Reverse Proxy directive to Virtual Host on finalsite.com
Client Team - Second Round
- Set Blog content addition freeze
- Make sure blog is excluded from GeoIP rules
LimeCuda Pre-Launch List
- Copy Fastly config to Live Fastly setup.
- Work with Kapost to ensure that this will work
- Whitelist the Fastly IPs on WPENGINE
- Make sure top nav isn't relative URLs
- Make sure not passing through CDN
- Set canonical on entire dev site to be Final Site Blog
- Scan the "Show VCL" section on Fastly to make sure the URLs are all correct
- check to see if .com/blog is mapping and passing headers
LimeCuda Launch List
- Network Activate the Reverse Proxy plugin
- Implement Global Redirect
- Find / Replace URLs
File Check
- wp-config changes with correct Purgely API keys
- Purgely plugin
- Reverse Proxy plugin
- Fastly config copied
- Kapost patch plugin
- .htaccess
Post Launch
- Change Google Analytics account URLs
- Add new Google Search Console account
- Submit new XML sitemaps to Google Search Console
- Change Facebook App URL
- Clear autooptimize cache
- Clear Fastly cache
- Clear WPENGINE Cache
- Check Global 301 redirect URLs using google "Site:" search
- Canonical on posts
- change the redirect URLs
- Update Footer link on main site to point to Blog
- Change Uptime Monitor URL - add both sites
- Change ManageWP URL
- Run a speed test
- Change MashShare license URLs
- Change Jetpack connection
- No mixed content messages?
- Change the RSS feed URLs feeding Eloqua
- Are Eloqua emails getting right RSS feed with new links?
- Check Google Analytics content area for any 404s
- Continue monitoring in Google Search Console