[Gimp-web] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: anyone try the news out?

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:20:04 -0500, Carol Spears <carol@gimp.org> wrote:
> On 2003-04-04 at 1957.07 +0200, Rapha?l Quinet typed this:
> > How should we proceed?  I suppose that it would be better to make a
> > copy of mmmaybe.gimp.org on wilber (the same machine as the current
> > site) so that we can compare the load.  This would also make the
> > transition easier later.  Then I would have to ask Yosh to define a
> > DNS alias new.gimp.org and a virtual host that points to it.  Would
> > that be a good way to start?  The two sites ("new" and "mmmaybe")
> > could co-exist for a while, with "mmmaybe" getting the more
> > experimental stuff so that "new" could already be reasonably stable.
> > 
> mmmaybe is on wilber.  i named it mmmaybe because i remember or dreamed
> i promised this to Xach.  new sounds as blah as the site apparently is.

Strange.  I thought that mmmaybe was on a different machine.  The IP
address for mmmaybe is 128.32.112.245.  This is different from the
IP address used by wilber: 128.32.112.248 (and 247, which is reserved
for other purposes).  Also, I do not see any configuration file or
web pages for the web site mmmaybe.gimp.org on wilber, so I still
think that mmmaybe and wilber are different machines.

> about the open security issues.  there seems to be a problem getting
> people to look at it much less poke around at it.  

That's why I wanted to have a copy of the site running on wilber, and
not the full site.  The site "new.gimp.org" would be a snapshot of what
is running on mmmaybe and it would not contain all the administrative
stuff.  So there would be less security problems.

If "new.gimp.org" should also contain the interface for adding news and
other stuff, then we will have to think about the security issues.  But
is it really necessary to do this in the first preview of the site?  I
think that most visitors would already be happy with a snapshot of the
new site even if the updates would be less frequent than on mmmaybe.

> perhaps a different approach. stick in place and watch how much no one
> cares about it with me.

You are a bit sarcastic, aren't you?  ;-)

-Raphaël