1 is A | 2 is B

The development continues. I have the virtual servers set up on Apache2. I’m not sure what problems I was having with them. One thing to look out for when doing this set up while using ZoneEdit is that even when you reload apache after making configuration changes, it may change instantly or it may take up to a few hours to update. This makes configuration tricky, but once I realized I did know what I was doing and it was just a reload issue I definitely became more confident.

Laurie (the server) is starting to get some real use. As I mentioned in the Collaboration posts, I installed and configured wordpress as a development blog for David and my project. I have a virtual server running that is ready to have a domain name of it’s own assigned to it, but for now I have ZoneEdit pointing production.1isa2isb.com at it.

I have also decided to use wordpress as the “framework” for 1 is A, 2 is B. As I was mentioning last time, this project is an organization tool for interfacing with all of my online projects. It is a central personal site. I have installed wordpress and begun learning about how to develop templates and css for it. I’m planning on doing some neat things with it, plus it will be the new home for this blog eventually (sorry readers from the future).

I have moved the domain postanarchism.com to the server as well. I began developing a wiki, using MediaWiki, on some GoDaddy server space I had. I decided to host the wiki locally because it doesn’t get much traffic and I wanted more flexability and control of the configurations/modifications I could make to it. Moving the wiki went fairly smoothly. I moved it into a subdirectory which I made a subdomain with the virtual host: wiki.postanarchism.com. PHPMyAdmin makes database relocating easy, reconfiguring the main configuration file for the new server and database was pretty straight forward. Some directories needed some permissions changed, but I had the whole thing moved and back up in under an hour. Some of the image functionality MediaWiki provides required that I install ImageMagick, which is available through apt-get and the install cd.

Future Plans

I need to figure out a backup scheme for the server. My initial plan was to tar the whole box (max disk space is only 10Gb anyways) and use nfs to back it up on Cate (the media machine…it has more than 150Gb available). This requires writing a lot of cron jobs so i’ve been looking into other options but may end up going this route in the end.
I still want to set up a streaming music server and I’ve also been looking into security measures to protect the server.

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