hi,
My hosting provider is very crappy. One of the basic things, i.e. shell access, is not available. This has many disadvantages because I cannot run almost any maintenance scripts. I found that I could use cron scripts to replace a shell, (it does what I would do in a shell), but it is very tedious and has been the cause of many problems. I had to import something to the wiki and ran the scirpt through a cron script but forgot to remove it and it kept importing it over and over till i saw that some pages that were deleted again came up.
moreover, the server is in such a location that cvs update is neversuccessful. In my computer, cvs update updates the code within 20 or 30 times, but in that server, it has never updated. I made a script to keep updating it till it succedded and it updated only once in 24 hours. This definately caused problems to the host, and they temporarily suspended my account. So I see no way out of this except change my hosting provider.
Does anybody know a good hosting provider that suites my needs?
vedant
Depends on your location, in my opinion. For instance, I prefer using a UK-based host because I live there.
As a stopgap measure, if you don't have shell access, try phpShell (http://mgeisler.net/php-shell) which provides a wrapper/emulator. However, it might be your crappy host doesn't allow the functions this needs in order to work.
Rob Church
On 21/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
My hosting provider is very crappy. One of the basic things, i.e. shell access, is not available. This has many disadvantages because I cannot run almost any maintenance scripts. I found that I could use cron scripts to replace a shell, (it does what I would do in a shell), but it is very tedious and has been the cause of many problems. I had to import something to the wiki and ran the scirpt through a cron script but forgot to remove it and it kept importing it over and over till i saw that some pages that were deleted again came up.
moreover, the server is in such a location that cvs update is neversuccessful. In my computer, cvs update updates the code within 20 or 30 times, but in that server, it has never updated. I made a script to keep updating it till it succedded and it updated only once in 24 hours. This definately caused problems to the host, and they temporarily suspended my account. So I see no way out of this except change my hosting provider.
Does anybody know a good hosting provider that suites my needs?
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hi,
i have already tried phpshell, but as it not exactly a shell, mediawiki still thinks the request comes from the web. so the maintenance scripts do not function. regarding the location, it will be very difficult to find a good host in India.
thanks for the help.
vedant
On 3/22/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Depends on your location, in my opinion. For instance, I prefer using a UK-based host because I live there.
As a stopgap measure, if you don't have shell access, try phpShell (http://mgeisler.net/php-shell) which provides a wrapper/emulator. However, it might be your crappy host doesn't allow the functions this needs in order to work.
Rob Church
On 21/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
My hosting provider is very crappy. One of the basic things, i.e. shell access, is not available. This has many disadvantages because I cannot run almost any maintenance scripts. I found that I could use cron scripts to
replace a
shell, (it does what I would do in a shell), but it is very tedious and
has
been the cause of many problems. I had to import something to the wiki
and
ran the scirpt through a cron script but forgot to remove it and it kept importing it over and over till i saw that some pages that were deleted again came up.
moreover, the server is in such a location that cvs update is neversuccessful. In my computer, cvs update updates the code within 20 or 30 times, but in that server, it has never updated. I made a script to keep updating it till it succedded and it updated only once in 24 hours. This definately caused problems to the host, and they temporarily suspended
my
account. So I see no way out of this except change my hosting provider.
Does anybody know a good hosting provider that suites my needs?
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Well, phpShell works for me and MediaWiki's maintenance scripts don't seem to care about the apparent web request.
Rob Church
On 22/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i have already tried phpshell, but as it not exactly a shell, mediawiki still thinks the request comes from the web. so the maintenance scripts do not function. regarding the location, it will be very difficult to find a good host in India.
thanks for the help.
vedant
On 3/22/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Depends on your location, in my opinion. For instance, I prefer using a UK-based host because I live there.
As a stopgap measure, if you don't have shell access, try phpShell (http://mgeisler.net/php-shell) which provides a wrapper/emulator. However, it might be your crappy host doesn't allow the functions this needs in order to work.
Rob Church
On 21/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
My hosting provider is very crappy. One of the basic things, i.e. shell access, is not available. This has many disadvantages because I cannot run almost any maintenance scripts. I found that I could use cron scripts to
replace a
shell, (it does what I would do in a shell), but it is very tedious and
has
been the cause of many problems. I had to import something to the wiki
and
ran the scirpt through a cron script but forgot to remove it and it kept importing it over and over till i saw that some pages that were deleted again came up.
moreover, the server is in such a location that cvs update is neversuccessful. In my computer, cvs update updates the code within 20 or 30 times, but in that server, it has never updated. I made a script to keep updating it till it succedded and it updated only once in 24 hours. This definately caused problems to the host, and they temporarily suspended
my
account. So I see no way out of this except change my hosting provider.
Does anybody know a good hosting provider that suites my needs?
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but this is what i get: $ php generateSitemap.php vedant.lath.in This script must be run from the command line
i run the CVS version of mediawiki. it was last updated on mar 3. it's on http://vedant.lath.in/icse/Special:Version
this is not a good maintenance script, but i think it includes commandLine.inc, the common include file for maintenance scripts.
vedant
On 3/23/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Well, phpShell works for me and MediaWiki's maintenance scripts don't seem to care about the apparent web request.
Rob Church
On 22/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i have already tried phpshell, but as it not exactly a shell, mediawiki still thinks the request comes from the web. so the maintenance scripts
do
not function. regarding the location, it will be very difficult to find
a
good host in India.
thanks for the help.
vedant
On 3/22/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Depends on your location, in my opinion. For instance, I prefer using a UK-based host because I live there.
As a stopgap measure, if you don't have shell access, try phpShell (http://mgeisler.net/php-shell) which provides a wrapper/emulator. However, it might be your crappy host doesn't allow the functions this needs in order to work.
Rob Church
On 21/03/06, Vedant Lath vedantlathetc@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
My hosting provider is very crappy. One of the basic things, i.e.
shell
access, is not available. This has many disadvantages because I
cannot
run almost any maintenance scripts. I found that I could use cron scripts to
replace a
shell, (it does what I would do in a shell), but it is very tedious
and
has
been the cause of many problems. I had to import something to the
wiki
and
ran the scirpt through a cron script but forgot to remove it and it
kept
importing it over and over till i saw that some pages that were
deleted
again came up.
moreover, the server is in such a location that cvs update is neversuccessful. In my computer, cvs update updates the code within
20
or 30 times, but in that server, it has never updated. I made a script to
keep
updating it till it succedded and it updated only once in 24 hours.
This
definately caused problems to the host, and they temporarily
suspended
my
account. So I see no way out of this except change my hosting
provider.
Does anybody know a good hosting provider that suites my needs?
vedant _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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