[UCIMC-Tech] help/advice for RFU website

[Joe Futrelle]

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. Not sure about how other hosts are mounting it.

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Joe Futrelle
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Chris Ritzo <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>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>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 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> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Interesting proje...
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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