Shut-down of the entire FreeCAD web on 18.01.2017 morning for maintenance

[yorik]

Hi all,

Our whole freecadweb.org domain (website, wiki, tracker and forum) will be transferred to another server on next wednesday, january 18th, at 6AM central euro time. As a result, our whole universe will be shut down during about two hours. We need to place all web apps in read-only/maintenance mode before that. Since 06AM is 3 in the morning for me, and I don't plan to be awake at that time, I'll place all apps into readonly mode around midnight for me / 3AM euro time. So we'll basically have all the morning without access to our web tools.

The good thing is that this move will also allow us to have HTTPS support, the webhosting people will take care of that as well.

[sgrogan]

Our whole freecadweb.org domain (website, wiki, tracker and forum)

IRC should still be available? In case of an unlikely catastrophic problem?

[yorik]

IRC should still be available? In case of an unlikely catastrophic problem?

Yes. Only the website, wiki, tracker, forum and API docs are affected. IRC and git/github will still work.

[kkremitzki]

Do you happen to know if you'll have mod-wsgi for Apache on the new web host?

[Kunda1]

IRC should still be available? In case of an unlikely catastrophic problem?

Yes. Only the website, wiki, tracker, forum and API docs are affected. IRC and git/github will still work.

Including https://gitter.im/FreeCAD/home as well

[yorik]

Do you happen to know if you'll have mod-wsgi for Apache on the new web host?

I don't know, unfortunately I have no control panel access. What is that mod for?

[cox]

As a result, our whole universe will be shut down during about two hours.

Guess there is nothing to do but ordering deep cryogenic sleep for the duration.

Good luck!

[yorik]

In case of intense abstinence symptoms, call your nearest fablab

[kkremitzki]

Do you happen to know if you'll have mod-wsgi for Apache on the new web host?

I don't know, unfortunately I have no control panel access. What is that mod for?

Basically, mod-wsgi is like mod-php for Python, an Apache module for running server-side Python. It allows for easy deployment of things like the Flask githook server I mentioned in this topic. It's even possible on locked down web hosts where you might have to deploy with .htaccess files instead of being able to edit the Apache config directly.

And actually, the more I look into it, mod-wsgi doesn't even need to be installed at the system level. As long as there's a Python interpreter available, you can bootstrap an application with that. But if it's a panel-only host without any shell access or Python interpreter, it's a no-go.

[PrzemoF]

Maybe it could be a good moment to switch from self signed certificate to https://letsencrypt.org/ ? The Linux Foundation is behind the project.