[UCIMC-Tech] help/advice for RFU website
Josh King
josh at ucimc.org
Thu May 20 19:17:28 CDT 2010
Sorry, I shouldn't have said path. Instead of a filesystem path, I mean
a request URI path. For instance, at OJC I've made it so that
http://virtualwindows.proxy.ojctech.com forward to our virtual server at
192.168.1.99 on the internal network. We could set it up so that, say,
http://recordings.wrfu.net or http://wrfu.net/recordings forward to the
lighttpd instance on grimlock.i.chambana.net on the internal network,
but I'm not sure how that works with Feeds/FeedAPI (Chris, you probably
have more experience than me with that). Also note that it only works
with HTTP traffic, but I believe that's what we'd be using and is way
easier to set up than port forwarding.
On 05/20/2010 06:56 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> I'd say something like..
> /usr/local/www/docs/aegir/platforms/wrfu.net/files/recordings
> <http://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
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting proje...
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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