Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

It looks as if Oracle are proposing to turn off the usOOo server this weekend, so the forum has to move before then. The constraint is that I don't have an exact DNS A record change time from Andrew. So

• I will take a snapshot now for safety.
• When I do get this time of the A record change, then ahead of this I will take the forum offline, swap out posting.php with a polite apology that we are moving and bring it back online.
• That way, the old forum will still be accessible but readonly in terms of content.
• Functions like PM will still work but any new PMs will be lost at cut-over.
• I will resync the content to the apache VM.
• As the DNS record for the new server propagates, you will see the forum appear to be normal. The migration has completed.

For those who know how to add an explicit entry to their local etc/hosts file, I will post the new IP address for usooo so that they can add it temporarily and continue to use the services despite the DNS propagation effects.

I'm able to get in on both new and old addresses already, using normal DNS. specifying the particular forum server I need, Oracle or Apache.

Update: Friday 201110281230; Oracle Server seems to be gone.

We still sport the Oracle logo. We're spoiling them.

One thing at a time, floris! Time enough to change logos when all works well (as it seems to be doing).

A smooth transition, Thanks, Terry.

RoryOF wrote:A smooth transition, Thanks, Terry.

+1

+1


This forum should be moved in the Site Feedback public section with full access to any users.
No objection? I'll move it in a few days then.

Hagar Delest wrote:This forum should be moved in the Site Feedback public section with full access to any users.
No objection? I'll move it in a few days then.

That's fine. Just remember to cut the "minimum of 10 posts" remark on the forum rules

Rules have been removed. I had missed the rules, thanks!

@Terry: I noticed that at all times there were a minimum of twelve "guest" connections on the new server. Are these some form of housekeeping, or are they real Users? I ask merely for information.

RoryOF wrote:One thing at a time, floris! Time enough to change logos when all works well (as it seems to be doing).

It'd require no more than changing the logo file name in the template file and dropping an Apache logo graphic in the correct folder. But Terry isn't necessarily the person who should take care of that.

As agreed in the proposal, I've moved the Site - governance and Forum Issues - EN to a read only area. Topics can be moved here if requested. Just PM an admin or moderator.
A new section (Private - EN) has been created for future discussions for sensitive matters only. Target is that posts will be sent to the ASF private mailing list.

Note that it has not been discussed IIRC but Quarantine, Deleted topics and Site - Forum administration should be kept as they are to continue current process with spam, temporary deletion and admin mailbox handling.

We're sort of in a limbo now waiting for Oracle to update the DNS record. I did a quick mailshot to let the main players know about this URI, but it isn't widely known and this is probably a good thing as we will be switching back to usOOo ASAP. My mailshot was based on a mine of mail address of all posters with >300 posts and visited the forum within the last year.

This situation is a typical left-hand / right-hand thing that you see in large corps. EDS was just the same. Oracle Facilities have found a tenant for the ex-staroffice team's office in Hamburg and are working to a deadline to make it available for them. In the meantime the Oracle networks team are processing the DNS change request at their own tempo. And so the forums and wiki are stuck in this gap. Andrew Rist is doing what he can to expedite this. But in the meantime ...

Everything looks good here.

Nice job, Terry!

Nice job and thank you TerryE!

So what's the new URL?
http://user.services.openoffice.org
or
http://ooo-forums.apache.org

They both seem to have the same content now.

My interpretation of The rehosting of OpenOffice.org Forums at Apache (ASF) is that the new URL is the old URL: http://user.services.openoffice.org. That would allow existing links in topics to function. Note title of this post.

I realise this is an interim measure. In case it is of any importance, my log-in was not remembered.

kingfisher wrote:I realise this is an interim measure. In case it is of any importance, my log-in was not remembered.

It is on the propagated old URL, but not on direct login to the new Apache URL, which is now redundant after the transition. Use the old URL and all should now be well.

Edit: @kingfisher: Terry notes this in his updated post at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... =7&t=44893 Basically, we should use the old URL, not the direct link to the Apache URL, as that will not work correctly.

Both http://ooo-forums.apache.org/en/forum/ and http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ are working for me at the moment.

The phpBB architecture ignores the inbound request hostname as a security measure and uses the one set in the configuration -- in this case user.services.openoffice.org. However the browser can get confused because the cookies are being set for the wrong hostname and this interferes with login but not guest access. I will be adding a redirection for http://ooo-forums.apache.org/* to http://user.services.openoffice.org/* to prevent this.

Also I still have a fit of work to do to reconfigure the batch jobs and the mailbox listener, so at the moment any requests to ooo-forum-XX-service@apache.org (the new Apache admin mailboxes) are simply piling up in the mail inbox Qs and not being posted to the Admin forums.

Nice job, Terry. Thank you for the effort you have put in.
I am still a bit puzzled about the dates. On Friday 28th (European Time) until the late afternoon I was still accessing the old IP address of user.services.openoffice.org -- at least nslookup told me so. After 11pm, again European time, I couldn't access the site, which i thought was the one hour outage of the cut-over that Terry said would be expected. Which is a bit strange because the post above let me assume that the cut-over was done on Friday, 8pm UTC.
But anyway daylight saving time is about to end, so who cares about one hour more or less

The nameservers that are relevant for resolving the hostname of this forum are still oracle.com servers? Is this going to change at some later time? Though I am sure that the Oracle nameservers will not be affected by the shutting down of the old hosting servers for this forum. And as long as they respond with the right IP address of the apache.org servers that's all what DNS needs.

rudolfo wrote:The nameservers that are relevant for resolving the hostname of this forum are still oracle.com servers? Is this going to change at some later time? Though I am sure that the Oracle nameservers will not be affected by the shutting down of the old hosting servers for this forum. And as long as they respond with the right IP address of the apache.org servers that's all what DNS needs.

The servers were in a dev machine room in an office that used to house the Sun/Oracle StarOffice team, and which after shutting the team down was empty (apart from this server infrastructure). Oracle wanted to sell-on sublet the lease. The DNS servers are in Oracle corporate infrastructure and not related to StarOffice. Yes, Oracle still has day-to-day control of the *.openoffice.org DNS records, but I understand that that transfer is in progress and will be done this week.