CS Department Webserver Upgrade 2005 Wiki
Information related to the Hardware and Software Webserver Upgrade
Discuss Concerns or Problems
CGI programming info links
W3.org Cgi Best Practices
Apache suexec documentation
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DaveCostello - 25 Oct 2005
Calendar Problems
Looks good, Thanks.
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KirkKelsey - 13 Oct 2005
Okay. I believe WebDAV is now working. I did a quick test using sunbird and it seemed to publish an event okay. Please try again. Thanks for the feedback Kirk.
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DaveCostello - 13 Oct 2005
The php generated views and directly loading the ics files works, but publishing does not. The publish mechanism is through WebDAV, so its likely a separate problem.
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KirkKelsey - 13 Oct 2005
I think it's functional again.
Can you test it again?
Needed some config tweaks for the new environment.
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DaveCostello - 13 Oct 2005
investigating... dc (moved question to problems
section here at the top)
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DaveCostello - 13 Oct 2005
It looks like the
department calendar is no longer working. Also, subscriptions to and publication of calendars (e.g. through iCal) is not working. It seems that the file or directory permissions (or ownership) have changed.
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KirkKelsey - 13 Oct 2005
Changes to be aware of
webmail
You can access your email from anywhere with a web browser via webmail.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/webmail
For those of you who tried using webmail on the old server I think you'll
find much improved usability and performance.
You may experience a slight delay the first time you use it while your preferences and
mailbox information is created for you. Subsequent connects should be much more responsive.
trivia: IlohaMail (pronounced: e-lo-ha-mail)
In Japanese, there's a poem that uses each letter of the phonetic alphabet (kana) exactly once, that begins with "iloha". Like the English counter-part, ABC, it is also used to mean "the beginning" or "the basics". With IlohaMail, it symbolizes ease of use and friendliness, as well as it's Japanese origins.
absolute paths in .htaccess files
The DOCROOT has changed on the new server. If you are including absoulte path information in a .htaccess file for something like the location of a personal .htpasswd file simply prepend
/var/www/html/ to the /htdocs path.
example:
/var/www/html/htdocs/u/myname/mydirectory/.htpasswd
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DaveCostello - 20 Oct 2005
cgi and paths
/usr/staff is no longer needed. Applications will be found in their
more traditional locations, usually /usr/bin.
To ease transition there are some symlinks so that most cgi
that worked on the old server will continue to work on the new server. You should inspect your cgi code for things like the following:
#!/cgi-bin/perl or
#!/usr/staff/bin/perl
and change to
#!/usr/bin/perl
public_html link
Lets you run cgi via suexec for added security and privacy of scripts
disc space
Much anticipated and needed additional web disc space is now available. (
please don't abuse this shared space by serving your entire catalog of personal mp3's or something similarly inappropriate)
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DaveCostello - 12 Oct 2005
Upgrade Information
Hardware: multiprocessor rack mounted Dell server
Software: Apache 2.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux
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DaveCostello - 12 Oct 2005
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DaveCostello - 12 Oct 2005