We should keep the FreeDOS wiki on the freedos.org domain.

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:32 AM Thomas Desi <[email protected]> wrote:

> freedos.wiki.org
>
> ?
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> Am 24.05.2021 um 17:28 schrieb Jim Hall <[email protected]>:
>
> 
> The wiki seems to be okay as I look at it now:
> http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS_-_mTCP
>
> The wiki is slow, that's true. For a while, I've been planning to move it
> off where it's hosted now (SourceForge shared project hosting) to where I'm
> hosting the main FreeDOS website (Dreamhost). The Dreamhost servers are
> much faster.
>
> SourceForge has had some unexplained downtime in the last few months,
> where web hosting or database hosting has gone down and didn't tell anyone
> (a) that it was happening or (b) what happened. That might explain what
> happened when you got the "500 error." You can see on their SFNet_Ops
> twitter that they've announced maintenance work, but nothing about outages.
> https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops
>
> So I think I need to get started with moving the wiki to Dreamhost. I
> think the best plan is this:
>
> 1. Find a new web name for the wiki (help.freedos.org or docs.freedos.org
> or ..?)
>
> 2. Set up the new website on Dreamhost
>
> 3. Freeze edits on the old wiki
>
> 4. Install & configure the wiki software
> 4a. Copy the databases & files
>
> 5. Update links on the website to use the new wiki
>
> 6. Decommission the old wiki
>
> 7. Re-point "wiki.freedos.org" as an alias to the new wiki (so any links
> people have that go to the wiki don't break)
>
>
>
> So, what seems like a good wiki website name? I'm open to ideas.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:46 PM Michael Brutman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> No good deed goes unpunished ...
>>
>> I made my edits.  Then this happened:
>>
>>    - http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS_-_mTCP is
>>    broken and returns a 500 error from the server.
>>    -
>>    http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS_-_mTCP
>>    works fine, but it's not a direct URL.  (The name is in the parameter.)
>>
>> I made a mess of the revision history trying to isolate which edits might
>> have broken it, but even going all the way back to Martin's last edit
>> doesn't work now.  And it's a server 500, which is not something user
>> content should be able to cause.
>>
>> Jim - who is hosting this thing?  Besides being broken, it's also pretty
>> slow.  I feel bad because it broke on me, but nothing I did should have
>> broken it.  (I suspect there is an admin page that I can't get to where
>> error logs can be examined.)
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:45 AM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mike!
>>>
>>> I can create an account for you.
>>>
>>> I'll create your account today and send it to you.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 5, 2021, 11:14 PM Michael Brutman <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've noticed some inaccuracies on the FreeDOS networking wiki pages.
>>>> How does one get an account so that edits can be made?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
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