Transition Technology: Ticket #234: Redirect from old forums

chris — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:24:21 GMT

I don't think I ever did a backup of the forums, I guess they were running on the lumpy lemon server?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://transitiontowns.org/forum/

If we can find a mysql dump and a backup of the directory I'm sure I could sort something out...

ed — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:45:10 GMT

yup they were running on lumpylemon servers - they won't have been killed, just mothballed. don't know if it's necessary to do a big dump/backup job; just to secure some access in some way...

ed — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:04:58 GMT

as per the emails with Simon, please proceed...

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chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:41:06 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 2.0
totalhours changed from 0.0 to 2.0

So it turned out that we did have a full copy of the files already -- we have a backup of all the directories, we didn't however have the SQL database.

I have got the forum up and running here:

http://2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org/forum/

And I have upgraded the code to the latest version and locked it down, notes on this here:

https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac/wiki/DevelopmentServer#bbPress

I think that's all that need doing, apart from telling people where to find it!

chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:04:49 GMT

I have added a link to it from here:

http://2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org/archive.html

And on the front page of this server:

http://kiwi.transitionnetwork.org/

hours, totalhours changed

chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:32:18 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.2
totalhours changed from 2.0 to 2.2

Text added to all the main pages:

<h2>These forums are now closed</h2>
<p>You cannot add any posts but all threads are readable. Please visit the
<a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/forum">Transition Network
forums</a> for current Transition-hosted discussions. Thanks.</p>

ed — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:41:27 GMT

blogged here: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2011-03/transition-towns-forum-archive

and added to handy howto block

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ed — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:41:43 GMT

type changed from enhancement to maintenance

status changed; resolution set

chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:45:21 GMT

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed

Nice one, might also be worth posting a comment about it here:

http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2011-01/transition-towns-website-has-been-archived

I'm closing this ticket now.