https://wiki.accu.org/ 2026-05-07T11:11:53+00:00 https://wiki.accu.org/ https://wiki.accu.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2018-08-31T10:06:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:accudns&rev=1535709996&do=diff DNS config for accu.org All DNS entries for accu.org are under /srv/accu.org/config/dns. While everything is on one host, I try to just have CNAMEs in accu.org.txt rather than the Symbiosis default of creating separate domain files. The file contents, by the way, are described text/html 2018-05-22T20:19:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:backups&rev=1527020359&do=diff Backups There are two core backup mechanisms active. The first is an instance of backup2l which runs daily. See /etc/cron.daily/zz-backup2l. This creates a generational incremental backup in /archive/backups - that is, on the non-SSD storage. These backups expire after 2 months. Currently they are also text/html 2017-10-04T05:25:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:emailaliases&rev=1507094729&do=diff Changing an email alias Email aliases are setup to re-direct the ACCU email accounts to real people. The aliases are stored at /srv/accu.org/config in the 'aliases' file. To change an alias: * log in to accu@dennis.accu.org * go to /srv/accu.org/config text/html 2024-05-13T14:37:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:hostingactions&rev=1715611071&do=diff Mythic Beasts hosting actions taken 2024-05-03 * Created Mythic Beasts ACCU account #28902. * Transferred accu.org domain to Mythic Beasts. * Mythic Beasts DNS not yet configured. * Bytemark auto-renew disabled. * DNS still points at Bytemark servers. text/html 2024-04-19T09:44:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:hostingchangeplan&rev=1713519890&do=diff Moving hosting away from Bytemark Bytemark's new owners (for the last few years) IoMart are looking to tackle their steadily declining share prices by stopping all support on Bytemark's BigV hosting system. They offer to replace our VPS will one from their standard fleet, but as they are no longer the technical-lead organisation they were, but a set of financial engineers, I would like, if we are to move the hosting, to put work into moving it to a different organisation. Specifically I have in… text/html 2020-07-13T11:36:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:mailman&rev=1594640207&do=diff Mailman configuration notes The mailing lists are now running with the standard Debian packaged version of Mailman. The Mailman setup for Exim is in /etc/exim4/symbiosis.d/20-routes/11-mailman and /etc/exim4/symbiosis.d/30-transports/11-mailman. It's standard Mailman/exim setup. text/html 2023-03-13T15:14:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:newwebsiteplan&rev=1678720476&do=diff Thoughts on a plan for a new website (This page is the original notes for what turned eventually into the current main website. It is now of historic interested only. I will note that a COTS membership system turned out to be rather more of a challenge than anticipated, and at the time of writing - March 2023 - an unsolved problem.) text/html 2024-05-03T22:27:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:start&rev=1714775276&do=diff Hosting notes * Mailman * Email Aliases * Website Registration and Bots * Backups * Old website source and setting up * A plan for moving hosting away from Bytemark * DNS config for accu.org * Hosting move actions taken text/html 2018-08-21T11:50:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:websiteregistrationbots_website_registration_and_bots&rev=1534852206&do=diff Website Registration and Bots We have, of late, been plagued with bots creating user accounts on the website. At peak, these can be hundreds a day. Combatting these is a work in progress. This page documents work to date (17/5/2018). These bots go through the entire signup process, including receiving the 'confirm you are real' email and completing the signup process from the link therein. text/html 2023-03-13T15:10:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=hosting:websitesource&rev=1678720249&do=diff Old website source and setting up from scratch Should you need to set up the website from scratch, either to restore operation or to create your own private copy for development, this is how to go about it. Source The first stage is to check out the source. This is now kept in Git in the ACCU Gitea system.