[sane-devel] SANE webserver up again

[Rolf Bensch]

My last commit isn't on the website (replacement of README.linux).

Cheers,
Rolf

Am 27.11.2013 21:37, schrieb m. allan noah:
> Thanks Henning. I was prepared to fix the website, I just needed you
> to change the dns records. But, you've done some of my work for me, so
> I won't complain :)
>
> allan
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Henning Geinitz <sane at geinitz.org> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> as you may have noticed, the SANE webserver (www.sane-project.org) is has
>> been down since several days. The reason was a hard disc failure on the
>> server that hosts SANE (alioth.debian.org). More information:
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00003.html
>>
>> So today I copied all data on alioth.debian.org from /mnt/home/groups/sane
>> back to the groups directory. This includes htdocs so the website is running
>> again on http://sane.alioth.debian.org. Also other services like git may
>> work again.
>>
>> However, I did not test anything else but basic web functionality. Please
>> check and correct any scripts that may not be working and crontabs.
>>
>> The mailing list archive still does not seem to work (no recent articles
>> since Nov 24), I have no idea why not.
>>
>> I also updated the DNS A record of www.sane-project.org to the new IP
>> address of alioth.debin.org. DNS propagation may take some time.
>>
>> Some info bout DNS configuration for the records:
>> www.sane-project.org, www1.sane-project.org and sane-project.org all point
>> to the IP address of sane.alioth.debian.org (=alioth.debian.org). Originally
>> there were mirrors at www2 and www3 but www2 does not work and www3 id very
>> old. I try to update www3 in the next few days but no guarantees. New
>> mirrors would be nice.
>>
>> This is a one-time effort i.e. I can not handle more work on alioth. So
>> admins with ssh access to alioth are needed to do such work in future. As
>> I'm the owner of the domain name sane-project.org I'll handle request to
>> change the DNS records but I can't do more due to time constraints.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Henning Geinitz
>>
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