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Routine upgrades completed

A series of routine upgrades to all the main CMS (content management systems) hosted on the DEOSS Community Server have been completed successfully. This includes all sites running Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, TikiWiki and WordPress. All went to plan … Continue reading

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Server upgrades

All the main content management systems hosted on the DEOSS community server have been upgraded today, including all those using  Coppermine, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, Tikiwiki or WordPress. In addition, several of our WordPress sites also required upgrades to their “contact … Continue reading

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Routine upgrades completed

All Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla, Moodle. phpBB, Tikiwiki and WordPress sites hosted on the DEOSS community Server have been routinely upgraded. The main server has also been upgraded and backed up to remote storage via RSync. Everything went smoothly and there … Continue reading

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Moodle upgrade

Following a security announcement from Moodle developer Martin Dougiamas, all three of the Moodle sites hosted here at DEOSS have been upgraded to the latest version, released yesterday. The entire site has been backed up to a remote server. There was … Continue reading

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Site update.

Following some rather alarming news regarding a privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel, the DEOSS community server has just received a series of security patches. The main issue was a bug known as CVE-2010-3904. Seems that an attacker would have actualy … Continue reading

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Server Upgrades

Sorry the blog has been a bit quiet. In a nutshell, we have been undertaking a number of small but necessary upgrades and improvements to the DEOSS Community Server, including:- Improvements to our backup strategy Operating system and kernel upgrade … Continue reading

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Minor upgrades & Rsync

A number of successful minor upgrades have been made to various DEOSS-hosted sites. The server was then RSync’d to a remote server. All went smoothly and there was no server downtime.

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Joomla sites affected by routine upgrade

Following a routine upgrade last night, several of our Joomla sites stopped working. Seems the upgrade re-created a previously deleted Joomla subdirectory called “installation”. Joomla is designed to stop functioning if this subdirectory is present. What is unclear at the … Continue reading

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Server upgrade & RSync

A successful minor server upgrade followed by an incremental RSync to a remote server was completed in the early hours of this morning. There was no server downtime.

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Upgrades & RSync

All instances of WordPress, Joomla & Coppermine on the DEOSS server have been updated via svn. The server was then RSync’d to a remote server. All went smoothly and there was no server downtime.

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