[OH-Dev] Reconfigured OpenHatch server to be more stable

[Carol Willing]

Hey Asheesh,

It may be unrelated but about and contact pages are generating 404 
errors. See issue filed on GitHub.

Nice job on all the changes :)

Carol

On 22/09/2014 20:56, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just finished making a few changes that I believe should be 
> associated with a noticeable increase in reliability of our website.
>
> * Upgraded our server (linode.openhatch.org 
> <http://linode.openhatch.org>) from Debian squeeze (oldstable) to 
> wheezy (stable).
>
> * Adjusted the web server configuration so that the main web app is 
> served via nginx+uwsgi, not nginx+Apache+mod_wsgi. This means fewer 
> layers of indirection between nginx and our Python code, which will 
> almost definitely be a great thing.
>
> * Apache -- I switched to the version in Debian stable, rather than a 
> hand-compiled version. This does mean we lose some custom logging I 
> once wrote in an Apache patch, but that doesn't really matter.
>
> * MySQL -- upgraded to 5.5 (we were running 5.1), as part of the 
> Debian upgrade.
>
> * Deployed the latest version of the code, because why not.
>
>
> If you find any weirdnesses, let me know!
>
>
> Also, in unrelated news, I'm visiting family this week in India (New 
> Delhi). So my time zone, at least, might be more different from yours 
> than it usually is. (Or less different, depending on where you live!)
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
>
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*Carol Willing*
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