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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