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Revision as of 20:40, 20 August 2013
All of nottinghack.org.uk will move to a new server, this involves quite a lot of work!
Below is an ordered plan of action
Server Build
Buy the new server, build the OS, install required services (sshd, web server, mysql, etc)
Plan is to base this server on nginx, depending on testing.
Quick list of the planed setup ('RepRap' Matt (talk))
- ClonDNS (to handle all DNS)
- Linode 2gb (with Linode Backup)
- Jungle Disk ( Backups, To cloud files or S3, not sure which yet)
- Debian Wheezy
- IPv4 & IPv6 Enabled and Firewalled
- Ttckeeper (we log all changes to /etc, in a git repo so we know who to blame)
- Nginx (1.4.2 dotdeb maintained)
- PHP5-FPM (5.4 dotbeb maintained)
- Mysql (5.5, wheezy core)
- Postfix
- Dovecot
- OpenDKIM
- RoundCube
- ViMbAdmin (postfix webadmin, i think this will work for us)
- phpMyadmin
- new work press
- new mediawiki
- move content* move email* take backups
Web Root
Before most of the remaining changes can be made, the server will need to have a live webroot. Maybe we can repurpose nottinghack.co.uk temporarily, or register a new domain. Called <new-domain> in steps below.
All the steps below assume that the webroot is in the backup schedule
Planet
Easiest to move, so let's move it first. No actual data is involved.
Files
- Transfer the planet generation files outside of the webroot.
- Create necessary files underneath webroot (call folder "p")
- run generator to check that it is pulling in all blogs.
Set up
- Set "p" as seperate site
- point planet.<new-domain> to point at this site
- Set up cron job to run generator
Final
Point planet.nottinghack.org.uk at site
Wiki
Has a lot of data, but less traffic than the website. Make sure wiki move it announced publicly We could put a temporary banner on the wiki, similar to wikipedia's fund-raising.
First steps
- Set up folder "w"
- point wiki.<new-domain> at "w"
- Install mediawiki on new server - version 1.19.2 (to match current)
- Use wiki-only database
- Do not set up any additional users
- Set up url rewriting
- Look into APC Cache settings http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMainCacheType
- Install plugins (some of these are part of normal mediawiki install):
- Interwiki
- Renameuser
- Replace Text
- CSS
- MagicNumberedHeadings
- ParserFunctions
- Poem
- SyntaxHighlight
- Widgets
- ConfirmEdit
- CategorySortHeaders
- Vector
- WikiEditor
Transfer
- point wiki.nottinghack.org.uk at splash page explaining transfer
- Take database dump
- Extract wiki tables
- Transfer media files
- Install database
Final
- Point wiki.nottinghack.org.uk at site
- Put wiki database into backup schedule
Website
First steps
- Update nottinghack.org.uk to latest Wordpress
- Update all plugins
Set up
- Install wordpress on <new-domain>
- Use wordpress-only database
- Install custom theme
- Install wordpress-plugins
- Install custom plugins
- Ensure url-rewriting working correctly
Transfer
We have two options - use the wordpress backup and restore functionality, or dump the database & media files and transfer manually. I suggest we try the backup and restore first, but I seem to remember that this causes a lot of issues with media.
- Put nottinghack.org.uk into maintenance mode
Final
- Point nottinghack.org.uk and www.nottinghack.org.uk at site
- Put wordpress database into backup schedule
Clean up
Other tools, such as dm2tweet will need moving as well. These can't be moved until nottinghack.org.uk is pointing at the new webroot.