Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
I left instructions for how I configured and installed everything on the old server, but it's rather tricky, so you might just want to let me install this one too
Be my guest... I'll send you a mail as soon as ssh is working on the new server.
(you can check out the process yourself at /usr/wikidev/docs/INSTALL, skipping the MySQL parts). I've also updated the procedure a bit based on some testing I've done recently. As before I'll document everything step-by-step as I go. We should also figure out a procedure for installing a testing all the wikis, then scheduling a DNS switchover.
I am in favor of a quick IP swap instead of a DNS switch. Register.com's DNS management is clumsy at best, and DNS is slow at propagating anyway. By swapping IP's, we can avoid the pain of waiting for DNS to change (and hoping pages are served correctly in the interim).
So, I think the new server should take the current server's IP (when we go live), and the current server should get a new IP. This implies that the mailing list software should either be moved to the new server, or an MX record should be added to DNS (simple in relation to changing dozens of subdomains) to point to the new ip of the current server.
Brion, now's the time to clean up all the ad-hoc changes made to the live wikis and get them into LocalSettings. I'm sure there are a few I've missed--can you get me a complete list?
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