publish new website

[jive]

Setting up a ticket to schedule new website - going to recommend January 15th, giving everyone a couple weeks to double check content before it goes live.

The website is located at ​http://staging.www.osgeo.org and will be published as ​http://www.osgeo.org

[robe]

Just outlining the steps that need to be done to make it happen

1) DNS change -- Alex or strk want to take ownership of this when it comes time. I don't have access to DNS (wildintellect, strk) -- so A record - 141.138.205.23 (osgeo.org, CNAME www.osgeo.org), and what we currently have for osgeo.org/www.osgeo.org becomes old.osgeo.org (or whatever we decided on)

2) config.php needs to be changed to reflect ​https://www.osgeo.org (robe)

3) LetsEncrypt SSL for www.osgeo.org (robe)

4) MySQL update fix any hard-coded staging.www.osgeo.org that may have occurred while people were editing and make them relative links (would be nice if we can figure out a way in wordpress to prevent hardcoded links from happening) - (robe)

5) Any redirects from old site we need to keep (this we may have to do piecemeal ) -- robe, strk, jive

6) Make sure robots.txt is right and old.osgeo.org has a robots.txt that says do not crawl.

[wildintellect]

Odd, my comments earlier didn't seem to post.

1. Staging was intended to always remain the staging server. 3rd party hosting was only, until no longer needed. No config changes to be made.

2. So we actually now need to begin the Production deployment. If that's on new hardware or OSUOSL hosted virtualization we need to decide and start down that path.

3. In the interim we could host Production and Staging on the same machine, 3rd party just to get it live sooner.

[robe]

I think we want to do 3 as I don't see us getting new hardware before January 15th. Do you have proposed specs yet even and it's fairly trivial to setup a second site on this box.

So I think the above steps still hold.

I'll add to my list todo

Create whole new site www.osgeo.org/osgeo.org on the current server and keep staging as is, aside from changing the repointing staging to backup db called osgeo_staging.

I think once we get new server, we should install things differently

1) We are going with PHP7 and not PHP5 that is currently installed in staging. Not sure why GI installed PHP 5. Might be because that's what we have on our old hardware and they wanted something we could easily support instead of PHP 7 to begin with.

2) We are going to go with MariaDB 10+ and ditch MYSQL. I want as little to do with Oracle as possible, I'm sure others share my sentiment.

I run other wordpress sites on the above so don't foresee an issue with switching, but we'd probably want a week of grace before we switch over to the new hardware just in case.

When we get new hardware, probably doesn't make sense to hold on to this cloud instance beyond our subscription period. We can run both staging and production on our own hardware.

[robe]

Okay I've got a Debian 9.3 VM with PHP 7, MariaDb 10.1 with the last night's wordpress backup loaded and using LetsEncrypt. At a cursory glance all seems to be working without any changes (aside from getting rid of php5 mod something or other in one of the configs) and fiddle with .htaccess (and minor changes cause I'm proxing the traffic).

I also have SSH access via LDAP working as well and also working on Wordpress.

At a glance all looks good. Now all I need is for someone to make a DNS entry so we can start testing.

Can someone either do a CNAME or A

CNAME staging2.www.osgeo.org to winnie.postgis.net

or

A staging2.www.osgeo.org 50.70.240.108

I'll also put up the instructions for setup on the wiki. I tried to make as detailed of instructions as possible.

Most of the time spent was figuring out which extensions were missing as some were missed in our setup docs.

If I had to do it all again with what I know now, shouldn't have taken more than 2 hrs with a brand new debian box and much of that 2 hrs would just be waiting for things to install.

[strk]

I've added A record, please confirm and close. From my side: staging2.www.osgeo.org has address 50.70.240.108

[robe]

Sorry I mistyped it should be 50.78.240.108

[strk]

Record updated, now pointing to 50.78.240.108

[robe]

Thanks, strk. I can get to it now.

I put my instructions here ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:staging2.www.osgeo.org

[robe]

this is done and I think the PHP7 testing is already detailed in another ticket.