[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/12026 Add ansible script to install/upgrade the OHRRPGCE wiki's mediawiki inst

Tue Nov 10 04:28:52 PST 2020

Also, looks like some, but not all of the SVN commit messages are getting
lost. They are not going in my spam folder... I haven't figured out yet
where they are disappearing

On Tue., Nov. 10, 2020, 7:26 a.m. James Paige, <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, that "when" clause on the cleanup step was an optimization for when
> I was developing the script, before the mv at the end was added.
>
> And yes, it is still reasonable to make experimental local edits, and just
> add them to the ansible script as a way of codifying them and making them
> permanent
>
> On Mon., Nov. 9, 2020, 10:37 p.m. Ralph Versteegen, <teeemcee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Finally got around to installing and figuring out how to run ansible. I'm
>> a bit disappointed that it takes such a long time to run, because of how
>> long it takes to untar and delete the mediawiki installation. It looks like
>> you partly tried to prevent that with
>>   - name: Clean up old staging folder
>>     file:
>>       state: absent
>>       dest: '{{ staging_dir }}'
>>     when: upload_tarball.changed
>>
>> etc, but it doesn't actually work, because of the ultimate 'mv "{{
>> staging_dir }}" "{{ real_dir }}"'.
>> I found that making a copy of ohrrpgce/ takes a very long time so I guess
>> it's all unavoidable. I'll stick to making test changes via ssh before
>> copying them over to the ansible scripts.
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 15:58, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 15:57, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK. That doesn't sound bad.
>>>>
>>>> It's not a browser cache issue (unless it's something in the cookie),
>>>> because the server doesn't send back any response at all, so there's
>>>> nothing for the browser to fetch. Is there somewhere else that php logs
>>>> errors?
>>>>
>>> (Just a blank 500 response, I mean)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 14:18, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You are welcome to test extensions and edits to LocalSettings
>>>>> directly, but to make those changes permanent they should go in the ansible
>>>>> files.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can run the ansible yourself if you want to apply changes. The
>>>>> "copy" command does a hash first, and only re-copies the tarball if it has
>>>>> actually changed, so you can re-run it frequently and it is okay.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if your browser cache has a mis-match of old and new versions
>>>>> of some Metrolook files. Could that be breaking it?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 8:08 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So if we wanted to upgrade an extension or skin, add an extension or
>>>>>> skin, or modify LocalSettings.php, should it be done by editing these
>>>>>> scripts and running Ansible? (I've never used Ansible.) It seems like that
>>>>>> would re-upload the whole wiki. Would it be acceptable to make changes to
>>>>>> the ansible scripts and the server files in parallel for testing, without
>>>>>> running Ansible? Or is that any other way to test changes?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently the wiki no longer displays for me, probably because of my
>>>>>> use of the Metrolook skin. I just get a 500 error with blank response, and
>>>>>> there's no error logged in logs/https/error.log. I'll have to experiment
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the https error log I also notice:
>>>>>> [Sun Sep 27 15:06:31.102274 2020] [cgi:error] [pid 27320:tid
>>>>>> 140042806298368] [client X.X.X.X:38194] AH02811: script not found or unable
>>>>>> to stat: /home/james_paige/
>>>>>> rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi, referer:
>>>>>> https://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 10:56, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Right now this installs Mediawiki 1.34.4
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1.35.0 is available, but requires a newer PHP version than what I
>>>>>>> have enabled on my account right now, so I'll switch to that on another day
>>>>>>> when I have more time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The process to add more extensions is pretty simple.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> TMC, I'll send you the Ansible Vault password separately, just so
>>>>>>> I'm not the only one who knows it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> James Paige
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 5:53 PM <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> james
>>>>>>>> 2020-09-27 14:53:16 -0700 (Sun, 27 Sep 2020)
>>>>>>>> 77
>>>>>>>> Add ansible script to install/upgrade the OHRRPGCE wiki's mediawiki
>>>>>>>> instance
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohr.hosts
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki.yml
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/EmbedVideo-v2.8.0.zip
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/LocalFirst.php
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/LocalSettings.php.j2
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/Metrolook-REL1_35-378825e.tar.gz
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/README.txt
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/mediawiki-spamcallback.php
>>>>>>>> A   web/ansible/ohrwiki_data/ohrrpgce.png
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