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Making a per-user Ruby Gems repository work with your Rails app

17 April, 2008 (08:01) | ruby, web | By: agraf

I previously published instructions for setting up a Ruby Gems repository on your own account, but I neglected to include the one special step that will let a Ruby on Rails application use that gem repository.

Now that step has been added to the end of the Ruby Gems on Your Account instructions.

I know we are running an out-of-date installation of Ruby and Rails, but we have requested a new one. Keep your fingers crossed.

Our Web & Web dev hosts
ruby 1.8.4
ruby on rails 1.1.6

Current stable versions
ruby 1.8.6
ruby on rails 2.0.2

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WordPress 2.5 and HTTP auth

15 April, 2008 (13:26) | blogs, sso authentication, web | By: agraf

The http-authentication plugin required for the fancy Pubcookie authentication instructions for WordPress does not function with the new WordPress 2.5.

I have changed the WordPress instructions to use the old 2.0.11 version of WordPress until the plugin gets fixed.

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Web Server Upgrades in 2008

31 December, 2007 (11:31) | web | By: agraf

Near the beginning of 2008 we’re planning to upgrade the software on the student, staff, faculty, depts, courses, MyUW.net and www Web servers.

The upgrade will include Apache, PHP, OpenSSL, mod_uwa, and enabling compression.

More detail is available on the public Web page for this upgrade.

Update: This work was completed in March.

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Revising MySQL instructions

18 September, 2007 (14:58) | mysql, web | By: agraf

This week and next week I’m hoping to get all of the MySQL instructions I currently have at www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/ revised to reflect the current systems and relatively recent versions of the software they discuss.

Changes I’ve made so far

  • Merged myuw.net MySQL documentation into main docs (still needs some work)
  • Updated the warning about the size of the install on the install page
  • Removed ovid migration-specific notes from install page

Future MySQL documentation goals

  • Create migration and installation instructions for system-wide MySQL installation
  • Develop and publish policies governing how this installation will be upgraded and how databases will be migrated to new versions of MySQL

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Staff/Faculty/Depts/Courses web and web dev server upgrades

23 February, 2007 (11:05) | web | By: agraf

These servers are going to be upgraded from March to May 2007.  This means a lot of planning, communication, testing, and helping users get their pages and applications working on the new operating system, hardware, and software versions.

The web and web development servers will be moving from AIX to Linux.

The following Web-related software will be upgraded:

  • Apache Server: 1.3.29 -> 2.2.4
  • PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 4.3.10 -> 5.2.1
  • perl Scripting Language 5.6.0 -> 5.8.0

New software will be available:

  • Ruby on Rails (Rails 1.1.6 on Ruby 1.8.4)
  • New PHP capabilities: XML/XSL, multi-byte string functions, openSSL and more
  • New perl capabilities: multithreading, better numeric accuracy, new modules

This upgrade will cause all of the MySQL server running on Ovid to stop working, so people running those will need to install new versions of MySQL.

Any other compiled code will stop working, so people using compiled code on ovid or the web servers will also need to either install new versions or recompile their code.

Since all those scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Python will be upgraded, people using those should make sure their scripts will run with the new versions.

Further information on the system upgrade can be found at:

Web Server Upgrade
http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/server-upgrade.html

If you have questions about this upgrade that can’t be answered by that web page, please contact me at help@cac.washington.edu.

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