Re: [boost] Migrating www.boost.org to another server

Subject: Re: [boost] Migrating www.boost.org to another server
From: DongInn Kim (dikim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-20 08:27:28

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for following up with this.

I have rsyched live.boost.org and beta.boost.org so that we can simply run the script to update the website on the new server.
I do not see any complexities.

Regards,

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- DongInn
On May 20, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 20 May 2013 12:50, DongInn Kim <dikim_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> First, we would like to migrate www.boost.org and beta.boost.org which are not dependent on any other services and domains at all.
>>> 
>>> The data of www.boost.org and beta.boost.org can be simply moved but I need someone's help who can switch the domain record to make these two hostnames point to the new server.
> 
> I don't think it's that simple. Those sites are automatically updated
> in a subversion post commit hook, which looks like it needs to be on
> the same server. The code is:
> 
> #
> # Update boost website
> #
> WEBDIR=/home/www/beta.boost.org
> cd $WEBDIR
> svn up
> cd /home/www/live.boost.org
> svn up
> 
> I'm not sure where this is on the server. I got it from:
> 
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/tools/server/subversion/hooks/
> 
> As part of the git transition, we're going to need to trigger updating
> the site from another machine, but I don't know what the plan for that
> is. I think David Abrahams had some sort of plan, so I'm cc-ing him.
> 
>>> Who can I talk to about this domain migration?
> 
> Beman Dawes I think. I guess he was at C++Now for the last week, so he
> might have missed this, so I've cc-ed him as well.
> 
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