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This is an ¡Adelante! document from the 2004-2005 year.

Contents

[edit] new plan

  • $96 unionmac.net + 4gb space + 100gb traffic (+5 addon) [1]
  • $9 unionmac.org as a double [2]
pending FAC approval
  • domain names:
    mnscu
    mnsota
    lakest
    mnnn
    unionmac
    selby
    minne


[edit] things to do after upgrade

  • remove duplicates between programming and meetings, and add programming to meetings, so that those in programming don't receive duplicates from meetings

[edit] live stream

[edit] Email accounts

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  • Google: adelantemac@gmail.com
    • used to receive mailing list subscriptions
  • Yahoo: adelantemac@yahoo.com
    • used for Yahoogroups subscriptions, not for actual email
  • Macalester: adelante@macalester.edu
    • currently set to forward to programming@adelantemac.org

[edit] Hosting plan

a payment of $87 for both of these plans has been made using Yongho Kim's paypal account (bank transfer) and reimbursed through FAC on December 10th 2004.

[edit] Web Server

  • Ozone Hosting
  • $12/year
  • Paid for until December 15th 2008
  • ID: adelante
  • password: twice standard
  • Capacity: 100MB storage, 2GB/month traffic

[edit] Domain Name

  • Name cheap
  • $9/year
  • Paid for until July 30th 2009
  • ID: adelante
  • password: standard

[edit] Hosted Organizations

[edit] hosted mailing lists

Mailing lists#other mailing lists hosted by ¡Adelante!

[edit] hosted services

  • radio
  • aroundme

[edit] Running applications

[edit] installation packages

  • new installations can be copied from /base (not /public_html/base )
  • mediawiki 1.4.2, civicspace 0.8.3 (for union.adelantemac.org) and wordpress 1.5 are gzipped
  • /simple-mediawiki-1.4.2 is a reduced package for 3.7MB (as opposed to 7.2 MB) by trimming down unnecessary (maybe?) /languages /docs /tests /maintenance folders. most important is /languages which weighs 3MB
  • get to the server via shell access. telnet:69.93.250.100:9876 usual ID and PWD. for example, to install a portuguese language (pt) copy 
cd base
ls (will display current packages)
tar -zxvf mediawiki-1.4.2.tar.gz (insert package name here)
mv mediawiki-1.4.2 pt
mv pt ../public_html/public/

now you can run /public/pt/ for the web interface installation. [3]

[edit] Upgrade log

  • 1.4.4. but cache problem persists. probably was not related to 1.4.3 at all. --Yonghokim 06:57, 4 May 2005 (MDT)
  • April 25. upgraded to 1.4.2 to clean up code
  • MediaWiki 1.4.2 released, upgrade not urgent given their changelog.
  • MArch 24. upgraded to mediawiki 1.4.0
  • January 25. installed mediawiki 1.3.10

[edit] Memos

  • really bizarre - when I tried this tip to change the left nav bar, mediawiki tried searching for the style sheets under /stylesheets and not under /skins , which is where they are. i thought this had something to do with the upgrade, and just renamed the /skins folder to /stylesheets. not the php file looks for the skin error and breaks down while looking for the file. my solution was replicating the folder for both names, but this would create problems in the future wherne working witht the stylesheets (duplicate all changes). i should work out a htaccess redirect solution, or just fix the damn php code -- 09:21, 25 Mar 2005 (CST)
trying changing localsettings.php by updating $wgStylePath and $wgStyleDirectory (they are supposed to list /skins on the new ver, but listed /stylesheets) but upon deleting /stylesheets, same problem -- 09:17, 26 Mar 2005 (CST)
19:53, 26 Mar 2005 (CST) ah hah! turns out .htaccess was only translating /stylesheets/ and not /skins/ . problem fixed, /stylesheets/ removed. (RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/skins/)

[edit] rankings

  • currently PageRank 300 (third page) on Google for the searchword adelante -- 09:04, 18 Apr 2005 (CDT)

[edit] disk space

  • current disk usage: 82/100 mb.
public_html/public 18.66 Meg
public_html/union 10.18 Meg
base/civicspace-0.8.0.3 10.18 Meg
public_html/cdl 7.27 Meg
public_html/jas 7.25 Meg
base/mediawiki-1.4.2 7.24 Meg
public_html/freedom 7.07 Meg
  • by deleting /union, /civicspace, /cdl, /jas, /freedom, we'll free up 40mb.
currently at 50MB after cleaning up some. could potentially free up 20MB (8MB squeezing mediawiki + 10MB civicspace). interestingly, MySQL space doesn't count towards space limit. I should probably do a historial purge before leaving school. -- 21:14, 22 Apr 2005 (CDT)

[edit] mysql backup

[edit] emergency response procedures

CIT deemed AdelanteMac's content offensive
and IP blocked the domain
  1. use proxies to connect
  2. change domain. maybe attaching to a commercial service provider (i.e. geocities?) would help?
  3. hook up off-campus connections as gatways
server crashed
use backup

[edit] History

Wayback archive for macalester.edu/adelante


[edit] Copyring LAS website's style

From: "Yongho Kim" <ykim@macalester.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:39 AM Subject: Copying LAS websites' style

Herta,

I am preparing a renewed website for ¡Adelante!, the latin@ student organization, for the next year. I really liked Latin American Studies' website (www.macalester.edu/LAS) and I have tentatively imitated its design style.

I think I should try to receive some form of permission from the creators of the LAS website before proceeding further. Could you forward her or him this message and let me know what they say?

The website, still in development, is at www.macalester.edu/Adelante/fa04

Thank you! Yongho ¡Adelante! Co-Secretary cc: Clara Weinstock (Co-Secretary), Emma Gallegos (PR)

Hi Yongho and Todd, Yongho, The person you're trying to reach is my son, Todd. Todd, I'm forwarding this message from Yongho Kim to you. Do you permit him to copy the web page style you created for the Macalester LAS web site? I looked at your "under development" site Yongho. I think it looks great. Thanks everyone. Herta

I'm completely fine with it. And she's right. It looks great. Peace. -Todd Pitman

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