Emergency Moodle security update

Posted on 2010-06-10 by garf

Following a security alert sent directly by Moodle developer Martin Dougiamas, all three instances of Moodle hosted currently here @ DEOSS have been upgraded via CVS. However the news regarding this upgrade was withheld for a few days to allow other Moodle webmasters to upgrade their sites.

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DEOSS RSync’d

Posted on 2010-06-09 by garf

A full manual RSync of DEOSS to a remote server was undertaken 2010-06-08. Routine upgrades to our various web applications and server software also took place. Server suffered no downtime.

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Welcome to Wessex Dental Training

Posted on 2010-06-03 by garf

I’d just like to say a warm welcome to Leanne Covey and her brand new Wessex Dental Training site to the DEOSS. We have been running a Moodle project for Leanne for several months. But this site is a new development and we are delighted to have her projects aboard.

You can see the new site here.

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Upgraded & RSync’d

Posted on 2010-06-02 by garf

DEOSS Community server has just undergone a series of minor software upgrades and has been rsync’d to an external server.  These upgrades were successful and caused no server downtime.

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DEOSS RSync’d

Posted on 2010-05-26 by garf

A full manual RSync of DEOSS to a remote server is currently being undertaken. Routine upgrades to our various web applications will then take place over the next 24 hours – after which the server will be Rsync’d again. No downtime is anticipated.

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Server down for 30 minutes

Posted on 2010-05-19 by garf

The DEOSS community server was off line between 08:01 & 08:31 this morning. A hard drive in the raid array failed again. As this is the second disk failure within a week, our upstream provider has moved us into a new machine. Hopefully that will be an end of our hardware woes!

System has been manually rsync’d to remote server.

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DEOSS Groups returns

Posted on 2010-05-17 by garf

DEOSS.org’s eGroupware based Groups web application makes a triumphant return! Well perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration. But DEOSS users will be pleased to know that a much improved DEOSS Groups is now up and running. All DEOSS customers are entitled to a free account. Contact me via the contact form over at deoss.com for a free account.

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Manual rsync

Posted on 2010-05-15 by garf

DEOSS community server has just been manually rsync’d to a remote server following further minor system upgrade.

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Code libraries added for Moodle customers

Posted on 2010-05-15 by garf

A couple of additional code libraries have been added for the benefit of owners of Moodle-based sites: php5-xmlrpc php5-curl. This was a painless process resulting in zero downtime.

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Structural changes to DEOSS community web server

Posted on 2010-05-15 by garf

Overview

I have been running various web projects since 1995. Trouble is that over that 15 years , content has become rather muddled and the function of the these various web presences has become blurred and hard to comprehend. The purpose of the changes is to mark clearly what the various sites do, so the users can access the content what they want to see, without having to wade through a shed load of other material they do not want to see.

Done already

  • Moved old garfnet to new deoss server.
  • Moved old deoss to new deoss server.
  • Installed and figured postfix c/w postfixadmin.
  • Split deoss.com, deoss.org, deoss.net domains.
  • Created new server web log @ deoss.net to inform users of DEOSS community web-server updates and changes. http://deoss.net

The various DEOSS domains are now assigned as follows

  • deoss.com is the commercial side, detailing services available to customers.
  • deoss.org is the public service part with articles about Linux and open source, free open source software downloads, and other non-profit material.
  • deoss.net is the host itself. It contains a public web log of server events and other hosting utilities.

To do list

  • Copy/move – Linux-based and other open source content from garfnet.org.uk to deoss.org.
  • Move projects and other experimental content from deoss.org to garfnet.org.uk.
  • Install and configure squirrelmail to offer all garfnet subscribers for a reasonably secure web based e-mail.
  • Install Joomla, Drupal or similar cms on deoss.org to handle amalgamated garfnet.org.uk and deoss.org content. The new CMS will reside on deoss.org and will be the default web application on that site.
  • The commercial DEOSS site, deoss.com will have its own pages maybe a simple cms , word press or maybe plain html, which displays in a very clear and simple manner what deoss has to offer, including selected screen grabs of various existing customer sites.
  • garfnet.org.uk will be downsized and will be an experimental and development site, with an unashamedly geeky content.  It will also retain the millennium ezine archive
  • Garfnet Pictures and the Webfooted Weblog may eventually will be split in two separate sites with separate domain names.  If Garfnet Pictures is separated from Garfnet and re-branded, then it is likely that the existing DEOSS media gallery will be integrated with it.  Both existing galleries currently include similar or some cases duplicate material and this ought to be rationalised eventually.

The various other sites hosted on this server are largely unaffected by the above changes.

  • Thanks to Oliver Bromley, Susannah Majlati and Rob Weller for their input and ideas – much of the above schedule has been based upon their input.
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