Don’t we have read only LDAP mirrors? Can’t mess anything there!

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:17 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:

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> On 4/24/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:43 PM Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> This next block will get whimsy installed, but you won't be able to do
> >> much with it until we get a web server up and running, which will be
> >> next.
> >
> > As promised, here is the next block:
> >
> > cd /srv/whimsy
> > rake update svn:update
>
> How long should this step take? I started it yesterday evening and it is
> still running, with no new output in many hours. The last output was:
>
> A    Meetings/19980627/rawnotes/manoj/nspr
> A    Meetings/19980627/rawnotes/brian/structure.html
> A    Meetings/19980627/photos.txt
> A    Meetings/20031116/member_proxy.txt
>   U   Meetings
> Checked out revision 96709.
>
> /srv/svn/apmail_bin
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.apache.org:443> ASF Committers
> Password for 'pats': ********************
>
>   U   apmail_bin
> Checked out revision 1059839.
> Updating '.archives':
>
>
> > sudo apt install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-passenger
> > sudo sed -i "/localhost$/s/$/ whimsy.local/" /etc/hosts
> > sudo a2enmod authnz_ldap cgid expires headers proxy_http
> > sudo a2enmod proxy proxy_wstunnel rewrite speling
> > sudo cp /srv/whimsy/config/whimsy.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available
> > sudo cp /srv/whimsy/config/25-authz_ldap_group_membership.conf
> > /etc/apache2/conf-available
> > sudo a2ensite whimsy
> > sudo a2enconf 25-authz_ldap_group_membership
> > sudo systemctl restart apache2
> >
> > At this point, you should be able to visit URLs like:
> >
> > http://whimsy.local/
> > http://whimsy.local/test.cgi
> > http://whimsy.local/board/agenda/
> >
> > Now to anticipate your next question, with this you will actually be
> > able to do things like post and approve reports.  In other words, if
> > the tool that you try is designed to update svn, it will do so.
> >
> > But I wouldn't recommend that you spend much time with the board
> > agenda tool other than to verify that you can use it to look at
> > agendas.  It seems likely at this point that the node.js version of
> > that particular tool is more likely to attract a development
> > community.
> >
> > But what you can do is develop, and test, CGI scripts.  If you get
> > something interesting working, submit a pull request so that we can
> > take a look at it.
> >
> > Have fun!
> >
> > - Sam Ruby
> >
>
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