[Systems] Requesting hosting environment for a Collaboration project OLPC-Sugar

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 13:57 -0700, Henry Villar wrote:
>> Thank you Bernie for your response.
>>
>> Here are the requirements for the Linux system for the olpcNET
>> project:
>>      1. System: RHEL/CentOS (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySql - the available
>>         version, hopefully the latest -)
>>      2. SELinux disabled, on 32-bit Linuxen.
>>      3. No firewall, and access to the internet
>>      4. Admin access, ability to execute the following installs:
>> sudo yum install subversion
>> sudo yum install gcc
>> sudo yum install php
>> sudo yum install php-xml
>> sudo yum install mysql-server
>> sudo yum install unixODBC
>> sudo yum install mysql-connector-odbc
>> sudo yum install php-odbc
>> sudo yum install vnc
>> sudo yum install vnc-server
>> sudo yum install mod_ssl
>> sudo yum install postfix
>> sudo yum install ntp
>>
>> SSH and FTP ports enable for client communication
>
> Our main shell/web server meets almost all the above requirements. The
> missing bits are:
>
> 1. ftp: we don't provide authenticated ftp on any machine because ftp
> transmits the password in cleartext. We use sftp, scp or rsync+ssh
> instread.
>
> 2. odbc: typical php applications don't require ODBC to access mysql. Is
> your application explicitly using the ODBC API? If so, we could easily
> install the relevant packages.
>
> 3. This server runs Ubuntu Lucid.
>
> If your application could be made to run in this environment, that will
> save us some time and resources. Otherwise, we could setup a dedicated
> VM, but you'll have to maintain and monitor it autonomously. We'll only
> provide daily backups of the filesystem.
>
> If you'd like to discuss the details, please join channel #sugar or
> FreeNode. My nickname is bernie. Our virtualization infrastructure is
> shared with other projects and is discussed on #treehouse, OFTC.
>
> --
> Bernie Innocenti
> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>
>
>
>

I would recommend a VM so it can be tested, upgraded as necessary, and
then moved/migrated as we see fit. Thank you, Bernie and others for
working with Henry, who has dedicated his masters thesis to this
effort. I am one of his advisors.

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://olpcsf.org/