All, We've been working on migrating away from the old divisional web servers for some time, and we've reached a point where security concerns are driving the need to get this move in place. We've come up with a plan for handling users' personal webspace in their unix home directories (those of you with www-unix URLS for your home page). Some of you may have noticed a symlink added to your homedir called "web" that points to an nfs directory. This is an rsync'd copy of your public_html directory that lives locally on the webserver. If you'd like to see what it looks like, visit http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> from onsite or VPN. Some advantages to this new setup are: * local disk on the webserver = fast * no more ugly www-unix or www-new urls (redirects will point to the new url in case you have old links hanging around) * php5 available with .php5 file extensions * migration serves as a reminder to cleanup/update your personal webspace :) We're aiming for a deadline of *August 1st* to cut over all users. The steps to migration being: 1. final rsync of data 2. move old public_html out of the way 3. move "web" symlink to public_html If you'd like to do this ahead of time, send email to [email protected] and we'll set it up. We will deal with www-fp homepages in August. Thanks, Ken
All, This is a reminder that the public_html directory migration detailed below will be happening August 1st @ 12:00am. If you rely on your personal webspace and haven't already, please view it on http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> to make sure things work. We've received some good feedback so far and I believe most of the issues have been addressed. Thanks, Ken Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
All,
We've been working on migrating away from the old divisional web servers for some time, and we've reached a point where security concerns are driving the need to get this move in place. We've come up with a plan for handling users' personal webspace in their unix home directories (those of you with www-unix URLS for your home page). Some of you may have noticed a symlink added to your homedir called "web" that points to an nfs directory. This is an rsync'd copy of your public_html directory that lives locally on the webserver. If you'd like to see what it looks like, visit http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> from onsite or VPN.
Some advantages to this new setup are:
* local disk on the webserver = fast * no more ugly www-unix or www-new urls (redirects will point to the new url in case you have old links hanging around) * php5 available with .php5 file extensions * migration serves as a reminder to cleanup/update your personal webspace :)
We're aiming for a deadline of *August 1st* to cut over all users. The steps to migration being:
1. final rsync of data 2. move old public_html out of the way 3. move "web" symlink to public_html
If you'd like to do this ahead of time, send email to [email protected] and we'll set it up.
We will deal with www-fp homepages in August.
Thanks, Ken
Good morning, The migration is now done. There were a few minor issues that I cleared up this morning, but overall, things went pretty well. If you'll notice, you should have a public_html.SAVED directory in your homedir that has the contents of public_html directory when it was copied to the new server. This is purely for recovery purposes in case something went wrong in the migration. It can be deleted if you determine that your data is correct on the webserver. Access to the files on the webserver is just like before: in your home directory under public_html. Also, the webserver is backed up nightly, in case there were concerns. Thanks for helping to get this done :). Ken Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
All,
This is a reminder that the public_html directory migration detailed below will be happening August 1st @ 12:00am. If you rely on your personal webspace and haven't already, please view it on http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> to make sure things work. We've received some good feedback so far and I believe most of the issues have been addressed.
Thanks, Ken
Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
All,
We've been working on migrating away from the old divisional web servers for some time, and we've reached a point where security concerns are driving the need to get this move in place. We've come up with a plan for handling users' personal webspace in their unix home directories (those of you with www-unix URLS for your home page). Some of you may have noticed a symlink added to your homedir called "web" that points to an nfs directory. This is an rsync'd copy of your public_html directory that lives locally on the webserver. If you'd like to see what it looks like, visit http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> from onsite or VPN.
Some advantages to this new setup are:
* local disk on the webserver = fast * no more ugly www-unix or www-new urls (redirects will point to the new url in case you have old links hanging around) * php5 available with .php5 file extensions * migration serves as a reminder to cleanup/update your personal webspace :)
We're aiming for a deadline of *August 1st* to cut over all users. The steps to migration being:
1. final rsync of data 2. move old public_html out of the way 3. move "web" symlink to public_html
If you'd like to do this ahead of time, send email to [email protected] and we'll set it up.
We will deal with www-fp homepages in August.
Thanks, Ken
It's come to my attention that I missed a few user directories during the migration. All users are migrated now. Please review the emails below for information on the migration and let me know if you have any questions or issues. I apologize for the lack of notice. Thanks, Ken Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
Good morning,
The migration is now done. There were a few minor issues that I cleared up this morning, but overall, things went pretty well.
If you'll notice, you should have a public_html.SAVED directory in your homedir that has the contents of public_html directory when it was copied to the new server. This is purely for recovery purposes in case something went wrong in the migration. It can be deleted if you determine that your data is correct on the webserver.
Access to the files on the webserver is just like before: in your home directory under public_html. Also, the webserver is backed up nightly, in case there were concerns.
Thanks for helping to get this done :).
Ken
Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
All,
This is a reminder that the public_html directory migration detailed below will be happening August 1st @ 12:00am. If you rely on your personal webspace and haven't already, please view it on http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> to make sure things work. We've received some good feedback so far and I believe most of the issues have been addressed.
Thanks, Ken
Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
All,
We've been working on migrating away from the old divisional web servers for some time, and we've reached a point where security concerns are driving the need to get this move in place. We've come up with a plan for handling users' personal webspace in their unix home directories (those of you with www-unix URLS for your home page). Some of you may have noticed a symlink added to your homedir called "web" that points to an nfs directory. This is an rsync'd copy of your public_html directory that lives locally on the webserver. If you'd like to see what it looks like, visit http://www-dev.mcs.anl.gov/~<username> from onsite or VPN.
Some advantages to this new setup are:
* local disk on the webserver = fast * no more ugly www-unix or www-new urls (redirects will point to the new url in case you have old links hanging around) * php5 available with .php5 file extensions * migration serves as a reminder to cleanup/update your personal webspace :)
We're aiming for a deadline of *August 1st* to cut over all users. The steps to migration being:
1. final rsync of data 2. move old public_html out of the way 3. move "web" symlink to public_html
If you'd like to do this ahead of time, send email to [email protected] and we'll set it up.
We will deal with www-fp homepages in August.
Thanks, Ken
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