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Provide DNS for staging site
Currently the staging site is located at http://open-forest-staging.app.cloud.gov. It should be hosted under a USDA or USFS domain instead, similar to production. There are two primary reasons:
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The GSA TTS Digital Council has asked us to reduce the number of public-facing staging sites hosted on our domains, including staging sites on cloud.gov. We can continue to use the cloud.gov domain by adding a justification for keeping it, but it's possible that's just a short-term bandaid until someone decides later to change the rules.
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The staging and production sites having different DNS configurations can result in bugs that appear in one environment but not the other. For example, the cookie/login bug showed up in production but not staging, because in staging, the API DNS was not considered 3rd-party from the frontend DNS and the cookies were fine. In production, however, they are hosted at different domains so the cookies wouldn't persist.
@bboddiger and @mwreiss - can we discuss at our next engineering sync?