Web Server Update

Steps involved in the web-server update:

Create web-server instance on sundown.wou.edu
This step is completed. You can see the results of our progress here.

Copy the files from maverick to sundown. It took 15 hours to copy the 150 gigabyte of files. This process will occur at least one more time just before we go production on the new web-server.

Create all the aliases that exist on the old web-server.
These are also known as re-directs. One example would be http://www.wou.edu/newmail

Permissions:
Every web directory is owned by one or more content providers. Ron is writing a script that will put the correct permissions on each directory. Once permissions are in place then your w: drive will need to be mapped to the correct location.

Ron needs you to help him out with the permission script. Please send your current path to the w: drive.

Test permissions:The data will be deleted at the new site, re-copied and Ron's permission script will be applied against the new data.

Go production:
Copy the files from old server one more time, apply Ron's permissions script and point the Domain Name Server to the new web server. This means that www.wou.edu will now point to the new web server. It will take about six hours for the name to propigate around the globe.

For an up to date status report, see Travis's blog.