wiki:PenguinServer

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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.

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