http://staff.washington.edu/agraf Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:21:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I get a significant number of requests for information on how to do this.  It's a pretty bad kludge, but it does seem to work. Basically, you make three directories: one containing the content and an .htaccess file denying all access one containing an .htaccess file allowing access via basic auth one containing an ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/08/01/web-auth-via-pubcookie-and-basic-auth/ Export the DB to sql statements. Search-and-replace "InnoDB" with "MYISAM". Re-import the tables.  Might want to do this into a different DB than the old one, just in case. Configure MediaWiki to use the new MyISAM DB. Make sure the user MediaWiki is using to connect to MySQL will be able to access the ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/05/05/moving-a-mediawiki-installation-from-innodb-to-myisam/ WordPress 2.5.1 was released today, which means that I will now edit the WordPress installation documentation to use the latest WordPress release again, since version 2.5.1 works with the new http-authentication 2.0 plugin. It is a relief to have the WordPress documentation using the latest, more secure version of WordPress again.  ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/25/wordpress-251-works-with-http-auth-20/ Today I updated the documentation for installing some wikis. MediaWiki instructions went from version 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 MoinMoin instructions went from version 1.5.3 to 1.5.8 The new version of MediaWiki has an option for selecting InnoDB or MyISAM, so the previous changes to that documentation don't seem quite as necessary, but they still ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/23/wiki-installation-documentation-updates/ Today a couple of things were added to the UA Web servers.  This includes staff.washington.edu, faculty.washington.edu, courses.washington.edu, depts.washington.edu, students.washington.edu, ovid.u.washington.edu, and vergil.u.washington.edu. Python was upgraded from 2.5 to 2.5.2 The sqlite3 (3.5.4) command-line tool was added. Python's sqlite3 module now functions properly The MS SQL Server PHP module was added, which allows connections to ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/23/new-software-on-the-ua-web-servers/ I edited the MediaWiki instructions today to include a note that users should disable InnoDB before installing MediaWiki. If people do this, then their wikis will work after MySQL has been automatically restarted by cron after a system restart. If people don't do this, then I have to ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/21/dont-use-innodb-over-nfs/ 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 ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/17/making-a-per-user-ruby-gems-repository-work-with-your-rails-app/ 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. http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/15/wordpress-25-and-http-auth/ For probably at least a year I have had instructions for installing MediaWiki on the UA Web servers. Installing MediaWiki http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/mediawiki.html These instructions include a default installation that uses the MediaWiki user and authentication system, as well as an option for using the Pubcookie SSO authentication system that is used for most UW ... http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2008/04/14/mediawiki-instructions-revision/ 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. http://staff.washington.edu/agraf/2007/12/31/web-server-upgrades-in-2008/