Upto UkDevServer

dev2.indymedia.org.uk

There was a disk failure at codecoop.org which resulted in the cvs history of the imc-uk project being lost, this page documents the setting up of a new dev site, it basically follows the instructions on the UkDevMirSites page.

Create a directory

  # mkdir /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk
  # chown user.user /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk

Checkout the code

You need to check out mir and the imc-uk project.

mir

Check out Mir anon, just hit enter when prompted for a password:

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk
  $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/mir login 
  $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/mir co -r MIR_1_1 mir 

imc-uk

Check out the imc-uk templates:

  $ export CVS_RSH=ssh
  $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:user@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/imc-uk co setup_uk

Site directories

Set up the site directory with a robots.txt file and fix the ownership:

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk
  $ mkdir -p site/{,abstract,comments,content,de,en,img,inc,style}
  $ cp /var/www/dev.indymedia.org.uk/site/robots.txt site/
  $ su
  # chown tomcat4. site/{,abstract,comments,content,de,en,img,inc,style}
  # exit
  $ cd site
  $ ln -s en/index.html

Apache virtual host

dev2.conf was created in /etc/httpd/conf:

# Editor: vim:syn=apache
# dev2.indymedia.org.uk
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin imc-uk-tech@lists.indymedia.org
    DocumentRoot /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site
    ServerName dev2.indymedia.org.uk
  <Location /photo>
    JkUriSet worker ajp13:localhost:8009
  </Location>
  <Location /photo/*>
    JkUriSet worker ajp13:localhost:8009
  </Location>
    <Directory /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site>
      Options Indexes IncludesNoExec FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      IndexOptions +SuppressHTMLPreamble +SuppressDescription
      AddHandler server-parsed .html
      AddType 'text/html; charset=utf-8' .html
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all  
    </Directory>
  # Apache gzip compression
  <Location />
    # This is taken from here: 
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html
    # Insert filter
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    # Netscape 4.x has some problems...
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
    # Don't compress images
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
    \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
    Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

The following was appended to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

  Include /etc/httpd/conf/dev2.conf

Test and restart:

  # /etc/init.d/httpd configtest
  # /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Sym link to imc-uk code

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/mir/
  $ mv etc etc.orig
  $ ln -s ../setup_uk/etc

config.properties

Copy the config.properties from /var/www/dev.indymedia.org.uk/etc/ to /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/etc/ and edit it: s/dev/dev2/

Apart from the db settings since we are going to use the same db.

*Not sure of locations above* Just done

  $ cd /var/www/ekes.dev.indymedia.org.uk/mir/etc/
  $ cp /var/www/cambridge.dev.indymedia.org.uk/mir/etc/config.properties .
  $ sed -ri 's/cambridge/ekes/g' config.properties

Compile Mir

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/mir/
  $ ant

Fix some permissions

There is a script for doing this, which needs the GROUP variables setting (leave INSTDIR as it is).

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/mir
  $ cp perms.sh-dist perms.sh

Edit perms.sh:

# The group all files belong to
GROUP=tomcat4

Then it needs to be run as root:

  # sh perms.sh
  ./bin/mir/WEB-INF/etc/config.properties
  Permissions set.

Tomcat symlink

Create a symbolic link from the tomcat web applications directory to your bin directory: (You need to be root to do that!)

  # cd /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/
  # ln -s /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/mir/bin/mir dev2

To restart tomcat:

  # /etc/init.d/tomcat4 restart

(You will need to re-run ant and restart tomcat after any future changes to config.properties before they will take effect.)

Build the site

Go to http://dev2.indymedia.org.uk/dev2 login and generate a load of stuff

Then look at http://dev2.indymedia.org.uk/en/

index.html sym link

You need to sym link en/index.html:

  # cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site
  # ln -s en/index.html

Cities list

Create a ~/bin/cities-update.sh file with the following in it and chomd 750 it:

  #!/bin/bash
  # get a new cities list
  wget -q -O /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org/site/cities.inc http://www.indymedia.org/cities.inc

Create the file and make it writable by you:

  # touch /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site/cities.inc
  # chown chris.chris /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site/cities.inc

Run it to test it and then set up a cron job with crontab -e:

  # update the cities list
  45 01 * * *             ~/bin/cities-update.sh 

Includes

There are various SSI included files that can be be edited via the admin interface, to set these up you need to touch the files:

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site/inc
  $ su
  # touch events.inc
  # chown tomcat4.tomcat4 events.inc 

There is a script for doing: setup_uk/misc/touch_includes.sh use it like this:

  $ cd /var/www/dev2.indymedia.org.uk/site/inc
  $ su
  # cp ../../setup_uk/misc/touch_includes.sh .
  # sh ./touch_includes.sh 
  # chown -R tomcat4.tomcat4 *
  # rm touch_includes.sh

FTP Uploads

The latest Mir supports FTP uploads, the plan is to get vsftpd running, the following config files doesn't work and needs fixing:

• vsftpd.conf: vsftpd.conf for anon uploads

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