[UCIMC-Tech] help/advice for RFU website
Chris Ritzo
chris.ritzo at gmail.com
Thu May 20 18:56:20 CDT 2010
I'd say something like.. /usr/local/www/docs/aegir/platforms/
wrfu.net/files/recordings
However, a slight hiccup- just logged into wrfu.net- it's on drupal 5.x &
Feeds is a 6.x module.
Should we upgrade to 6 or use FeedAPI
http://drupal.org/project/feedapi(predecessor to feeds, I believe.)
-C
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Josh King <josh at ucimc.org> wrote:
> In that case, I think the easiest thing would be to use Apache's mod_proxy
> on fixx0 to forward connections on a particular (sub)domain or path to port
> 80 on grimlock. I recently used something similar at work to forward web
> requests from an external web host to an internal. I can work on setting
> that up; suggestions for the subdomain or path that should be used?
>
>
> On 05/20/2010 04:43 PM, Joe Futrelle wrote:
>
>> from Brian:
>>
>> me: quick q how are other hosts mounting grimlock's recordings?
>> Brian: there aren't any network filesystems available from grimlock.
>> right now it's running lighttpd with a symlink to
>> /home/jfutrelle/recordings in the document root
>> --
>> Joe Futrelle
>> Person
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Joe Futrelle <joefutrelle at gmail.com
>> <mailto:joefutrelle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Rock and roll.
>>
>> Thanks x 10^6 Chris, I will get the csv script written as soon as I
>> have the free time (possibly tonight)
>>
>> IIRC grimlock is not public-facing. Its internal DNS name is
>> grimlock.i.chambana.net <http://grimlock.i.chambana.net>. Not sure
>>
>> about how other hosts are mounting it.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Futrelle
>> Person
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com
>> <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I should have a user account on the wrfu site- critzo probably.
>> If you someone could make me an admin, I'll install Feeds and
>> get it ready, set up a new content type. Joe, when you have a
>> sample csv let me know what the field names are. I can also ssh
>> into fixx0 and see about getting the mount set up. I'm guessing
>> that would be at the file system level, instead of through
>> apache or drupal. We put a mount point in fixx0's fstab and then
>> a symlink to it from inside the drupal file structure. Then
>> nodes can reference the appropriate file system paths and access
>> is secured through drupal user/role permissions
>>
>> What's the status of grimlock? is it on an internal-only imc
>> subnet? Is it set up to allow NFS mounts?
>>
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Joe Futrelle
>> <joefutrelle at gmail.com <mailto:joefutrelle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm still hazy on how we'd do authz on the mp3's themselves,
>> and which layer (Apache? Drupal?) would serve them from the
>> mounted fs.
>>
>> But in any case, it sounds like we can make the Feeds module
>> work, so I'm thinking I should go ahead and develop the code
>> that generates the .csv file, putting whatever fields I
>> think are going to be relevant into it--then we can figure
>> out how to make properly-secured, content-bearing nodes out
>> of it using the Feeds module and other Drupal features.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Futrelle
>> Person
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Chris Ritzo
>> <chris.ritzo at gmail.com <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, that's the idea. Currently wrfu's site is using
>> drupal users for auth, not querying the IMC ldap. But
>> you bring up mounting a share from within the wrfu site,
>> maybe even a link in the files/ directory. If we did it
>> this way we could leave auth.as <http://auth.as> is.
>>
>>
>> More on feeds- the module let's you map fields from the
>> csv to fields in drupal nodes of a specific.content
>> type. So we create a new content type, say "shows" and
>> the feed creates/updates nodes of that type based on the
>> contents of the csv & the mapped fields.
>>
>> Josh or Brian, can you weigh in on mounting a network
>> share on fixx with a ln inside the files directory?
>>
>> On May 19, 2010 3:51 PM, "Joe Futrelle"
>>> <joefutrelle at gmail.com <mailto:joefutrelle at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Feeds module sounds like the way to go. Is the idea to
>>> have a job on grimlock generate a feed file which
>>> Drupal, whose host would have the relevant part of
>>> grimlock's fs mounted, would periodically read? And
>>> then when the user clicks on a link in the generated
>>> node Drupal would serve the mp3 to them depending on
>>> some authz policy that would be specified (how? in
>>> what layer?) based on the user's LDAP identity which
>>> they got by authenticating to Drupal? Or is WRFU's
>>> Drupal authentication separate from LDAP authentication?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Futrelle
>>> Person
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Ritzo
>>> <chris.ritzo at gmail.com <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Interesting proje...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
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