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 At this point you should test everything using the feministwiki.dev domain name.
-Some things may not work because they're hard-coded to work as "feministwiki.org" and not under the "feministwiki.dev" name.  This is a point of future improvement: all the services should be configured, if at all possible, in a way that they will work when invoked as feministwiki.dev just as well.
+Some things may not work correctly because they're hard-coded to work as "feministwiki.org" and not under the "feministwiki.dev" name.  Here's a list of known issues related to this:
+* WordPress normally redirects clients to the canonical address of a blog if it's visited through an alternative domain name.  This means we get redirected back to the old server if we try to visit {{C|blogs.feministwiki.dev}}.  To work around this, we use {{C|RequestHeader set Host}} in the Apache2 site configuration, which fools WordPress into believing it's being accessed through the canonical domain name.  Still, the HTML/CSS/JS sent back to the browser refers to some resources on the {{C|.org}} domain, which then fail to load due to CORS violation.
+If you want to be extra thorough, you can edit your {{C|/etc/hosts}} file to make {{C|feministwiki.org}}, various {{C|*.feministwiki.org}} subdomains, and maybe even other aliases (such as {{C|fem.wiki}}) point to the new server, and then test the few stubborn services that won't otherwise play nice.
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