[dundee] New TayLUG website

[malcolm]

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 10:58:32 gordon dunlop wrote:
> The new TayLUG website is now up on my home server, A TayLUG member has
> kindly offered to host the site on one of his company's servers. This will
> be better in the long term and an Industrial-type server is better then a
> home server. It is envisaged that this will happen within the next two
> weeks, in the meantime I have a test version (similar to the final version)
> up and running within a virtual machine on my CentOS 5.3 server. Due to it
> being a test version (called it TayLUG preview) accounts can't be created.
> When the changeover to the other server has been completed and everything
> tested satisfactory I will email the list with details for accounts etc. To
> give people some technical info on the site.
>
>
>  Wiki:
>
> I am using Mediawiki which is PHP based with a MySQL backend.
>
>
>  Mail Archives:
>
> All the mail archives from 2002 until June 2009 has been archived. The
> Lurker database has a strong search engine giving a knowledge base to the
> TayLUG.
>
>
>  TayLUG Blog:
>
> This for any TayLUG member to blog on what they want (within common sense &
> good taste) especially where it is not pertinent to post on the list.
>
>
>  TayLUG Cloud:
>
> This is a demonstration to show how Linux can be used in cloud computing
> with a small footprint. Two public accounts has been created, I have
> created an extra 3 for TayLUG members to have a look. These are the
> usernames and passwords for the accounts, (3) guest3, pass3 (4) guest4,
> pass4 (5) guest5, pass5
>
> These accounts are only 20 MB in size, enough for demonstration purposes.
>
>
>  About FOSS:
>
> This is for new users, I have only one video up at the moment, more can be
> added later, it is just using embedded links to youtube etc.
>
>
>  Here is the url of the new website:
>
> www.dundeelug.org.uk
>
> notice there is only a dot difference from the old site.
>
>
>  p.s. I had a router that was really giving me hassle regarding port
> forwarding and the website access for the Wan interface, fortunately I
> remembered that I had a spare Linksys WRT54G so I put on the open source
> “Tomato” firmware and used this. I am really impressed with Tomato as it is
> so easy to use. Because I changed the router yesterday, the external IP
> address was changed so I had to make an update to the DNS nameservers.
> Sometimes it can take a couple of days for all the root name servers in the
> different regions to register the new IP. If you do a dig command on the
> website url it should give you an IP Address of 94.168.152.125, if it
> doesn't then the DNS nameserver in your region has not yet been updated and
> you might have to wait a day or two.
>
>
>
>  Gordon

Does this work?