On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Things noticed that we should improve > ============================== > > 1) When the apache server on myxwiki.org is down there's no maintenance page > appearing. We should get a nice "maintenance in progress" page. > > 2) When doing upgrades it's best to plan it a bit ahead of time and notify of > the upcoming upgrade using the myxwiki twitter account/mailing list > > 3) In the upgrade notes, I'd like to suggest that we do things differently: > - before restarting tomcat, stop apache (after disabling the crontab) > - create a tunnel to your local machine: ~C + -L8080:<ip>:8080 > (you get the ip using /sbin/ifconfig) > - start tomcat > - ensure it all works fine > - upgrade the XARs > - verify all is ok > - restart apache
Done Thanks -Vincent > 4) Right now port 8080 is open on apache, this needs to be closed > > 5) we should subscribe the notifications list to the main wiki on myxwiki.org > to perform community checking of the wiki > > Who can help perform 1), 4), 5)? I can do 3). > > Problems fixed while doing the upgrade > =============================== > > I noticed that one user page was called frequently in the logs and after > checking it had over 3K comments, all spams with lots of external URLs. > I removed this page but we need to watch out for pages giving xwik guest > rights to edit/comment on them. > > I hope this was the problem causing lots of downtime on myxwiki.org and poor > perfs. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

