Re: gnustep.org has been down for the past few days

[Ivan Vučica]

I've spent some time today on playing with Ansible thinking it may be
better to do it sooner rather than later. I'll leave that aside for
now.

By the time I got to look at restoring MySQL databases, it simply got
late. Turns out that the database dumps need to be manually fixed
before they can be imported: schemas have changed between the version
on the old server and MariaDB 10.x that I have on the new one. It
should be relatively easy, if possibly labor intensive.

I'll leave it for tomorrow.


On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:09 PM Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:
>
> I've synced the latest backups I have to the server, I've picked up
> new ones from our host, and I'm looking at setting up basic services.
>
> I've stopped now as I got tired, and will resume tomorrow.
>
> In the meantime, I've left www.gnustep.org pointing to the temporary
> redirect, but I have set up A records and CNAMEs pointing to the
> existing, deprecated oxymium host:
>
> - ftp.gnustep.org
> - ftpmain.gnustep.org
> - wwwmain.gnustep.org
> - mediawiki.gnustep.org
>
> Please note: our current host has kindly done another, *final* export
> of MySQL databases. Any future changes will *not* be reflected when I
> bring up the services on the new host. I will *not* ask our current
> host for a new database export.
>
> Please also avoid making changes to the site whether via CVS or FTP.
> If you do make an upload to FTP (such as a new release), please notify
> me explicitly and directly, and ensure you get an acknowledgement from
> me.
>
> Please also note: at least initially (and possibly permanently) the
> CVS website edits will not be fetched  in the new setup. Likely we'll
> switch over to Git. Some services like /softwareindex/ may move to a
> subdomain, so we change what portion of our setup depends on PHP.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 10:43 AM Gregory Casamento
> <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We have a backup of the wiki data.  I am more concerned about just getting 
> > the actual site up for now.
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 4:45 PM Marco Cawthorne <marco@icculus.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2022-08-27 13:20:04 -0700 Gregory Casamento
> >> <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > We were being hosted by oxmium, but I believe they took it down.  I
> >> > am in
> >> > the process of redirecting the site to github.io on a temporary basis
> >> > until
> >> > we devise a more permanent solution.
> >> >
> >> > GC
> >>
> >> Thanks for the quick response Gregory.
> >> I hope the data is still going to be accessible. I've been using the
> >> Wayback Machine for the time being, but it is spotty and things like
> >> the Wiki are not all captured.
> >>
> >> Marco Cawthorne
> >>
> >
> >
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