Penguin

penguin.webarch.net is a new 2GB RAM Xen Debian virtual server which replaced NewLiveServer and DevelopmentServer for running all non-Drupal sites and which went live in early January 2013. Drupal sites from the old servers are being migrated to PuffinServer.

The install and initial configuration of this server is being tracked on ticket:470, the oustanding things that need doing:

• Check the mysql and php settings
• Sort out munin (or collect)
• Sort out the apt pinning - there are still some problems with this

Console Access

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

Updates

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, backports and wheezy being used there are sometimes packages which need manually updating, see ticket:470#comment:6 for some notes on this.

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

• ​http://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

This trac site, which 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

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

stats.transitionnetwork.org

• ​https://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

• ​http://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/

Mediawiki, install notes on ticket:357#comment:10 and ticket:470#comment:10 login is via HTTPS.

static.transitionnetwork.org

• ​http://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

• ​http://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

• ​http://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

• ​http://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.

Backupninja

See the install and configuration notes ticket:470#comment:1 and ticket:470#comment:16