1. 2005/8/6

To state the obvious, I've gotten the almost-latest version of [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ MoinMoin] installed here. I'm using this wiki as an opportunity to test the proposed new scheme for scripts, where every virtual host script request is proxied to use a ~username URL. The benefit of this is that Apache suexec has special support for ~username scripts, which prevents us from needing to give users subdirectories of /var/www. This seems to be working now, with only the annoying problem remaining that MoinMoin uses absolute URLs, reverting to the uglier ~username form. Hopefully I can fix this, and also implement some infrastructure to help us take advantage of the centralized "wiki farm" support in the latest Moins. --AdamChlipala

2. 2005/8/4

I've installed domtool from [http://hcoop.sf.net/ CVS]. It was remarkably easy to get the basic stuff working. The only changes so far have to do with our switch to Apache 2 from Apache 1.3, which required using a different directive to indicate which user and group suexec should use for a vhost. --AdamChlipala

3. 2005/8/1

Since we had two disks in the server, and the other one was unused (simply mounted on /backup), I repartitioned it, installed new Debian GNU installation on it (using debootstrap), compiled the kernel, and successfully rebooted into it on the first try!

Then I went to move the installation to /dev/hda, thereby replacing the stock one we got from InterServer. Evertyhing worked fine, and then I went to set up software RAID-1. I made a minor mistake in lilo.conf, and the server didn't want to boot properly. We filled in a Support Ticked at InterServer's site, and in 2 hours, John Quaglieri booted the system from the CD, fixed lilo.conf and even performed one additional step regarding RAID-1. I was impressed by his support.

4. 2005/7/21

Our new server is ready to go at [http://interserver.net/ InterServer].