[Systems] Planned system maintenance on Sunjammer starting NOW

[Bernie Innocenti]

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On 08/02/16 02:18, Bishnu Bidari wrote:
> Hi Bernie,
> 
> Thank you for the hard work.
> 
> One thing missing
> We have url re-write setup through htaccess file(for wordpress site).
> But for that we need to enable it through Directory entry on apache2.conf
> /<Directory /srv/www-olenepal/>/
> /Options Indexes FollowSymLinks/
> /AllowOverride None/
> /Require all granted/
> /</Directory>/
> 
> *AllowOverride None*
> to 
> *AllowOverride All
> *

Oops. I had to fix several little issues due to the tighter access
controls introduced in 14.04 and Apache being stricter about
configuration parsing in general.

So I set AllowOverride to "Indexes FileInfo Limit". Is it enough? If you
need All we can do it of course. Just following the philosophy of having
the minimum security exposure that gets the job done.


> Thanks,
> Bishnu
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:22 PM Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org
> <mailto:bernie at codewiz.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Sunjammer is now back online with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. All hosted websites
>     and services appear to be running correctly, but please let us know if
>     we missed something (*).
> 
>     We also intended to switch to Trisquel 7, which is equivalent to Ubuntu
>     14.04 minus the non-free packages (of which we don't use any), but we
>     ran out of time for tonight. This will require one last reboot, but the
>     outage should be very short.
> 
>     A big thank you to Rubén Rodríguez of the Free Software Foundation for
>     staying online all Sunday to support us during the transition. Also big
>     kudos to Samuel Cantero who stayed up until 1AM to lead the second stage
>     of the upgrade and cleanup the considerable fallout.
> 
> 
>     (*) There are sysadmin contacts in the wiki, so please don't send me
>     private email.
> 
>     On 07/02/16 14:26, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>     > Today Sunjammer will undergo a long overdue maintenance session to
>     bring
>     > the OS up to date.
>     >
>     > The following services are affected:
>     >
>     >  - Mailing lists
>     >  - Main wiki
>     >  - Local Labs wikies
>     >  - ASLO
>     >  - sugarlabs.org <http://sugarlabs.org> email delivery
>     >  - planet.sugarlabs.org <http://planet.sugarlabs.org>
>     >
>     > And a few minor things:
>     >
>     >  - secondary nameserver
>     >  - download.sugarlabs.org <http://download.sugarlabs.org>
>     >  - Munin
>     >  - shell accounts (including any IRC bouncers and personal sites)
>     >
>     > We'll have to upgrade the base system in stages, from one LTS
>     release to
>     > the next, so things will be going up and down for the entire
>     afternoon.
>     > At the end, we'll be running Trisquel 7 (roughly equivalent to Ubuntu
>     > 14.04). We'll perform another upgrade to Trisquel 8 when it becomes
>     > available later this year.
>     >
>     > My apologies for the very short notice: Ruben, Samuel and I have been
>     > planning this since last week, but I forgot to send out a public
>     > notification.
> 
>     --
>      _ // Bernie Innocenti
>      \X/  http://codewiz.org
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Bishnu


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