[m-dev.] for review: move web server to venus

[Fergus Henderson]

Thanks!

On 12-Feb-2001, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> The last step, which I haven't done yet, will be to change the DNS
> entry for www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au to point to venus instead of hydra.
>
> Steps for moving Mercury WWW site to a new machine:
> 
> 	- make sure the following packages are installed (Debian
> 	  package names used here): apache, hypermail, php3, php3-cgi,
> 	  htdig.
> 
> 	- make sure /etc/apache/srm.conf contains the following two
> 	  lines:
> 		DocumentRoot /var/www
> 		Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
> 
> 	- ln -s /home/mercury5/installed_w3 /var/www
> 
> 	- ln -s /home/mercury5/installed_w3/htdig/htdig-mercury.conf /etc/htdig/
> 	
> 	- copy contents of /var/spool/htdig/ to the new machine
> 
> 	- edit w3/bin/install_webpages (from CVS repository) and
> 	  change the machine-name check to the new machine
> 
> 	- edit w3/include/search.inc and make sure the search action
> 	  is pointing to the new machine
> 
> 	-  edit and install new crontabs for new and old machines for
> 	   user `mercury'

That looks great; how about adding it somewhere in
`w3/information/developers'?

...
> +++ include/search.inc	2001/02/12 07:02:56
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>  the mailing list archive.
>  <br>
>  <p>
> -<form method="post" action="http://hydra.cs.mu.oz.au/cgi-bin/htsearch">
> +<form method="post" action="http://venus.cs.mu.oz.au/cgi-bin/htsearch">
>  <font size=-1>
>  Match: <select name=method>
>  <option value=and>All

Would it be better to make that point at www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au?

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