This site was down for about 20 hours since yesterday afternoon (i.e., 9/17/08) while I upgraded my Ubuntu server. It was kind of scary to rebuild it from scratch, but I want to get a Bugzilla instance and SVN repository set up and the old OS had reached EOL. My apologies to anyone who tried to access the site for the last day or so.
A few brief notes on the upgrade.
- ubuntu server would not auto recognize flash thumb drives … manual mount
- named runs under it’s own bind user and the config files for it must be bind group read only
- apache configuration can be tricky. You must enable mod_rewrite, set up NameVirtualHost * in the httpd.conf, enable vhost files, create some soft links, etc. … it’s a battle
- rsync needs correct sudoers setup
- postfix has to be configured to forward to ISP