REconomy site migration and updates

[chris]

This ticket is to keep track of the tasks undertaken and the time spent on the migration of the ​http://www.reconomy.org/ site to wiki:ParrotServer.

[ed]

hold on with the move while Ed gets permission from the site owners... keep doing the prep, but stand by for moving date

[chris]

Replying to ed:

hold on with the move while Ed gets permission from the site owners... keep doing the prep, but stand by for moving date

No problem, I won't update the DNS till we have an agreed time.

I have had a chat with Laura and Ed on the phone about the REconomy site.

I have updated the Gandi Reconomy Zone file from:

@ 10800 IN A 81.95.52.48
www 10800 IN A 81.95.52.48
@ 10800 IN MX 10 mx.webarch.net.

With these values:

@ 600 IN A 81.95.52.48
www 600 IN A 81.95.52.48
@ 10800 IN MX 10 mx.webarch.net.

600 seconds is 10 mins, this will mean that there will be a minimal time in which people will get the old site after it's been migrated.

Laura has created an account for me on the site.

I have installed the wp-piwik plugin and set it up to not track Editors and Administrators, I have sent Shane account details and I have also updated the wiki:PiwikServer documentation and the wiki:WikiStart#Websites list of sites.

Next I'm going to set a copy of the site up on wiki:ParrotServer and see if I can get ​http://wp-cli.org/ working with the site.

[chris]

I have deleted the two dodgy looking perl scripts and the /demo/ site after agreement with Laura and Shane.

I have copied the site over to wiki:ParrotServer and followed the ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Relocate_method steps to get the site up and running as a dev version before we do the DNS update.

There is now a dev version of the site running here:

​https://recon.parrot.transitionnetwork.org/

After disabling the Bad Behavior plugin via the web interface I was able to use the wp-cli tool, this is the status of the plugins:

wp plugin status
32 installed plugins:
  A akismet
  A analytics360
  A backupwordpress
 UI bad-behavior
  A breadcrumb-navxt
 UA contact-form-7
 UA custom-sidebars
  A delightful-downloads
  A display-widgets
 UA facebook-members
  A gd-star-rating
 UA google-analyticator
 UA jetpack
 UA multiple-category-selection-widget
  A newsletter-sign-up
  A recent-posts-slider
  A related-posts-slider
  A related-posts-thumbnails
  A share-and-follow
 UI sidebar-login
  A special-recent-posts
  A stop-spammer-registrations-plugin
  A subscribe-to-comments-reloaded
  A twitter-widget-pro
  A wassup
  A wordpress-backup-to-dropbox
 UA wordpress-importer
  A wp-pagenavi
  A wp-piwik
  A wp-hide-post
 UI yet-another-related-posts-plugin
  A breadcrumbs

Legend: A = Active, I = Inactive, U = Update Available

If the REconomy Project team are happy with the Piwik stats I'd suggest that the google-analyticator plugin could be removed, I'd also be interested in knowing if the Bad Behavior plugin is essential as it's going to limit what can be done using wp-cli. If it is essential then perhaps the incompatibility of wp-cli and Bad Behavior can be raised with the respective developers to see if there is a way forward.

Laura might have some thoughts on updates to the other plugins?

Is a development version of the site needed to test updates on?

[chris]

I have created a wiki page for documenting the site, wiki:ReconomyWordPress

I have got the wp-cli tool working with the bad-behavior plugin by adding the following to the URL whitelist:

/usr/local/wp-cli/bin/../php/boot-fs.php 

I have copied across a new version of the database and rsynced the files and commented out the define('RELOCATE',true); line in wp-config.php and updated the Gandi zone file -- the site is now migrated.

[ed]

Good work Chris. I guess we watch #542 now?

[chris]

Replying to ed:

Good work Chris. I guess we watch #542 now?

Yes, I have been keeping an eye on the Munin stats:

• ​https://penguin.transitionnetwork.org/munin/transitionnetwork.org/parrot.transitionnetwork.org/

It's very clear already tat the REconomy site is the one that is geting the most traffic, see:

• ​https://penguin.transitionnetwork.org/munin/transitionnetwork.org/parrot.transitionnetwork.org/apache_vh_volume.html
• ​https://penguin.transitionnetwork.org/munin/transitionnetwork.org/parrot.transitionnetwork.org/apache_user_monthly_volume.html

I have added a note about bad-behavior to the wiki page wiki:ReconomyWordPress#bad-behavior

[chris]

Closing this ticket now, Laura has done a lot of updates and redesign on the site now and it's looking great!