[Sysadmin] Re: Moving d.e.o

[Dean Mah]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:52:11PM +0000, Simon Coggins wrote:

> > We're losing our current hosting and need to move d.e.o to a totally
> > new box.  We're working with the UK evolt.org group to move it to
> > their server.  What do we need to move for d.e.o?  Which
> > database/tables?
>
> There are only three tables, Categories, LinkCats and Links. The database
> is an old one of mine, called "astro38", which I can access though
> PhpMyAdmin. The fourth table in that account "weblog" I use for
> http://members.evolt.org/simonc/ so don't delete it!
>
> >  Is there anything special about the coding that we
> > need to watch out for?
>
> Possibly a few things:
>
> 1. It uses mod_rewrite in a .htaccess file to make the friendly urls.
>    (/home/evolt/deo_html/.htaccess)
> 2. The admin area is password protected, again using .htaccess (separate
>    file though).
>    (/home/evolt/deo_html/admin/.htaccess)
> 3. Quite a few important files are stored in /home/evolt/includes rather
>    than /home/evolt/deo_html so make sure you get all them too.
>
> As long as you recursively get all the files in those two directories it
> should be fine.

Okay, thanks Simon.  Sounds fairly straight-forward.


> While we're on the subject, do you think it would be possible to
> pass the administration of deo on to someone else? I'm busy writing
> up my PhD these days so I barely have time to approve new links let
> alone improve the code.

First, congratulations and good luck on the thesis.  Second, I'm sure
that the content team will be able to take it over.  How do we access
the approval pages?  Or should that be obvious from the code?

Dean