Sometime during the weekend, the ftp server on www2 decided that its license had expired. Until a new license could be obtained, the standard ftp server (wu-ftpd) was run. This led to some slow response (wu-ftpd operates under the xinetd master daemon) for much of the day. The vendor provided a new license key at 4:30 PM. This was installed, and ftp service was restored to normal.
Category Archives: web server
5/25 – www2 failed
The secondary web server www2 became unresponsive when the SurgeFTP service began consuming 99% of the CPU cycles. We were unable to stop the service or gracefully restart the system. The system was powered down, then back on, after which the system ran normally.
Added database to mySQL
Added new database and user to MySQL for testing purposes.
Added a redirect in /.htaccess
Added to /.htaccess in www.ups.edu
Redirect /sciencecenter http://sciencecenter.ups.edu/
This is in support of an awareness campaign in which the address www.ups.edu/sciencecenter is in use. This will allow the includes to work at all levels without a major reworking of the site.
Web Server emergency maintenance
The University web server will be down during the morning of August 31, 2004 for some emergency maintenance related to a hard disk failure.
Added database to mySQL
I’ve installed PHPCollab on the web server to use in the OIS website redesign. This is the database for the script.
Deleted /aca website
Ron Albertson and I discussed the difficulty in keeping the old /aca website live on the web server. As a result, I deleted the the site. I archived it first and will send him and Jack Roundy a copy on CD.
University main pages now load from root directory
On Monday I added some new profiles. After talking things over with Barbara I took the opportunity to change the main pages location so that they load now from the root directory. The index page in both /root and /external_homes are identical so no links will be broken.
Is that an expression of relief I hear across campus?
modified formmail6.php
I changed formmail6.php to be XHTML compliant, as follows:
the two header calls now refer to /ssi/xpagetop.shtml
the <br> tag is now closed
Since we use this form for XML/XSL email this is a good thing.
We’ll want to be sure to make these changes to a new version, if that happens.
New BBS for contributors
I’ve replaced PHPBb with SMF (formerly YABBSE) because it has better user management.