OpenServo.com

mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

On March 27th, Tuesday night between 10pm and 2am GMT (2pm to 6pm Pacific time), the OpenServo web site will be moved to a new hosting provider and various pieces of the software that run the site will be upgraded.

Heaps of thanks go to Barry Carter (ginge) for spearheading this effort to help move us to a new foundation for growing the OpenServo site in the future. Also, many thanks go to Andrew Lippitt for hosting the OpenServo site for free on his hardware for the last year.

After the OpenServo site has been upgraded, please be patient with us while any remaining kinks are worked out. Any issues you might notice should be posted to this thread so Barry and I can fix things up as needed.

-Mike

ginge · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:

Hi All,

We have successfully migrated the OpenServo project hosting from Andy's server to a new Linux based host.

The total downtime of the forum was just under 2 hours and the website approximately 30 minutes. Downtime of the OpenServo domain was minimised thanks to some fancy bash scripts and lack of sleep.

Now the OpenServo domain is hosted on a more flexible platform, we are free to expand our hosting technology as the project grows.

As Mike has said, any issues that may arise from the porting of platforms should be reported here.

Thanks again to Andy for his hosting of OpenServo.com over the past year.

Thanks for your patience.

Barry
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mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

Barry,

The formatting for the following Forum thread is appearing to be broken in my Firefox 1.5 browser:

http://www.openservo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=437

It's late tonight for me, but I'll try to take a look at it further in the morning to diagnose what might be wrong.

-Mike

ginge · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

Yep, broken here in Konqueror browser.

This one seems to be fixed for now. The database tables were all escaped out due to some mangling. Replacing "" with " fixes it.

Barry
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SOI Sentinel · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 44

I think you might not have your DNS completely correct. Openservo.com goes to the right site, openservo.org give an Apache/Fedora forbidden message.

ginge · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

Well spotted SOI.

I think the .org should be a forwarder not an A record entry. I will get Mike to update this when he has a few minutes to spare.

Barry
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ginge · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

This is now updated. I managed to find a way of redirecting within the server and without updating DNS records.

Thanks again.

Barry
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mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

Hmmm. I'm having problems with CVS where the OpenServo repository does not seem to be found as shown below:

ginge · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:04 am Post subject:

Mike,

I think the whole win32 Linux file case issue is getting us here. You never had to put any thought into the case on the old system, so OpEnSeRvO would have worked.

Switching to the correct case gives:

mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

Barry,

Thanks for the hint on this. I'll update the Wiki page with the correct case information if you haven't beat me to it.

BTW, I'm not in love with mixed case or anything for these directories and such. I'm all for changing everything to lower case if we think it is better in the long run. I certainly realize it would be better for people working in command line environments.

-Mike

ginge · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject:

Mike,

It looks like we are working to fix the same problem. Luckily we can have both of our solutions for a good workaround. If anyone has a CVS client setup to use openservo it will still work. Your solution to edit the website should help to stop people using the now "legacy" links.

In any case, I just put a symlink in the OpenServo CVS that no one will see and will not impact anything. We can always remove this when we are happy that people have stopped using the old cases.

Personally I don't mind mixed case on command lines, and I certainly think the module should be called OpenServo, just in case we will break everyones local CVS copy.

Barry
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mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

Sounds fine Barry. I haven't yet had a chance to change anything on my side (I'm moving pretty slow this morning Smile

).

BTW, I want to thank you in this thread for all the work you have done to move the OpenServo site to a standardized Linux environment. It's critical that we put in place a solid foundation for continued growth of the OpenServo project and you have made it ALL possible. Thank you.

-Mike

ginge · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

Mike, Can you check the server time. I have no idea what time it is supposed to be on your side of the lake these days, but the server is reporting (at the time of this post) Thu Mar 29 19:09:08 CEST 2007

I recently had to put on an hour for British Summer Time which puts the server time at about 2 hours wrong even when configuring phpBB's timezones.

Barry
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mpthompson · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 650 Location: San Carlos, CA

I just checked the server time. Showing the following for me at the time of this posting:

# date
Thu Mar 29 19:16:20 CEST 2007

Should we adjust it to GMT? I would be fine with that. I'm not sure what advantage there is on keeping it on CEST (central european summer time). Do we change the timezone through Plesk or is it control in some other Linux configuration file?

-Mike

Cliff · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 150 Location: Saratoga, CA