wiki:PenguinServer

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Table of Contents

  1. Console Access
  2. Munin Stats
  3. Updates
  4. Websites
    1. penguin.transitionnetwork.org
    2. tech.transitionnetwork.org
    3. stats.transitionnetwork.org
    4. wiki.transitionnetwork.org
    5. patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org
    6. static.transitionnetwork.org
    7. 2010.archive.transitionnetwork.org
    8. 2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org
    9. redirects.transitionnetwork.org
    10. totnes.transitionnetwork.org
  5. Backupninja

Penguin

penguin.webarch.net is a 3GB RAM Xen Debian virtual server, it replaced NewLiveServer and DevelopmentServer for running all non-Drupal sites, and went live in early January 2013. Drupal sites from the old servers were migrated to PuffinServer.

This server is due to be upgraded from LennyToSqueeze on ticket:535 in May 2013.

The install and initial configuration of this server was tracked on ticket:470.

Console Access

There is a Xen shell available for console access, see wiki:XenShell.

Munin Stats

There are munin stats for the server available here

Munin was installed on penguin via ticket:483#comment:35

Updates

All systems updates are recorded on ticket:218.

There is a script in /usr/local/bin called a-up which can be used to update the system via aptitude, the advantage of using this script is that it writes things that are changed to the /root/Changelog and the time spent doing the updates can then be reported via ticket:218, see AptitudeUpdateScript for a copy of a-up and the logchange script it uses to update the Changelog.

Due some packages from dotdeb and backports being used, see ticket:470#comment:6 and ticket:470#comment:41 for some notes on this -- the pinning setup could do with some work, but this is non-urgent, the work-around is to manually upgrade some packages, eg: 

a-up
  About to upgrade munin-node/squeeze-backports munin-plugins-extra/squeeze-backports
  No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
aptitude install munin-node/squeeze-backports munin-plugins-extra/squeeze-backports

Websites

Penguin is running nginx, the work to change all the old apache configuration to nginx configuration was done on ticket:357.

The following website are running on penguin:

penguin.transitionnetwork.org

This is a splash page which lists what the servers is running and is also served at the server's IP address.

tech.transitionnetwork.org

The main documentation page for Trac is wiki:TransitionTrac

This trac site is running using trac from debian backports and it is using nginx as a reverse proxy to tracd, to start and stop the server: 

sudo -i
su - tracd -s /bin/bash
cd /web/tech.transitionnetwork.org/bin
./tracd-stop
./tracd-start

Trac is set to start after a reboot via cronjob, see ticket:470#comment:30.

See also the install notes, ticket:470#comment:24 and wiki:TracUserAdmin and wiki:TimingAndEstimationPlugin

Open Trac tickets: No results

Closed Trac tickets: #1, #3, #89, #90, #91, #179, #270, #345, #364, #413, #492, #494, #507, #534, #546, #597, #611, #642, #682, #822, #842

stats.transitionnetwork.org

This is a ​Piwki site which currently collects usage stats for www.transitionnetwork.org but which could be used to collect stats from all the Transition Network sites, see wiki:PiwikServer for additional information.

wiki.transitionnetwork.org

Mediawiki, this is running the long term support version of Mediawiki, see ticket:455 and also see the install notes on ticket:357#comment:10 and ticket:470#comment:10 login is via HTTPS.

Updates:

Open Mediawiki tickets: #870, #879, #892

Closed Mediawiki tickets: #129, #148, #192, #230, #381, #394, #402, #419, #432, #455, #505, #506, #532, #536, #551, #595, #620, #669, #686, #694, #700, #706, #723, #733, #736, #753, #766, #781, #793, #799, #813, #816, #841

patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org

See TransitionResearchWagn

static.transitionnetwork.org

This site has been used as an archive for media files from Network Conferences, see the Nginx migration notes ticket:470#comment:16. A FTP server yop allow the site to be updated hasn't been setup, when updates are needed they should be done via SFTP.

2010.archive.transitionnetwork.org

This is a 283M archive of the wiki that was running at transitiontowns.org. The site is in /web/2010.archive.transitionnetwork.org/www/ and the nginx config is in /etc/nginx/archive-shared and /etc/nginx/sites-available/archive, see ticket:470#comment:7.

There is a issue with images not displaying on this archive, see ticket:474.

2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org

This is a 305M archive of the wiki that was running at transitiontowns.org and the forum that was at ransitiontowns.org/forum. The site is in /web/2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org/www/ and the nginx config is in /etc/nginx/archive-shared and /etc/nginx/sites-available/archive, see ticket:470#comment:7. See also the bbPress notes at wiki:DevelopmentServer#bbPress

redirects.transitionnetwork.org

This is a domain that domain names which are not currently being used can be pointed to and be redirected to the Transition Network site. See ticket:470#comment:21 for the nginx configuration and wiki:DomainNames.

totnes.transitionnetwork.org

Static copy of the old Transition Town Totnes Drupal site, created on ticket:630.

Backupninja

See the install and configuration notes ticket:470#comment:1 and ticket:470#comment:16, on 17th November 2013 we switched the servers filesystem to a ZFS server on the network and filesystem backups are now done via ZFS snapshots so the rsync backup was disabled, see ticket:535#comment:22