Snippets from the reprap-admin list
Administration of the reprap.org domain and its server is pretty well hidden so far. But it exists! There's a invitation-only reprap-admin mailing list and with the recent dropouts, this list became...
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More updates, discovered some rogue web clients repeated reloading a large file. Stopping these hits reduced the outbound wiki bandwidth by somewhere around %25. The reprap.org server is looking...
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Hi Bill, good job done :)-D Can you 'put your finger' on location and time the majority of this 'unwanted' requests occure? But I think, the databases are so big now and totally overwhelmed with high...
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This last culprit was a handful of different IP's, but all using a browser-id string that doesn't get used by any legitimate browsers. I suspect some kind of buggy download manager. In any case, they...
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In an attempt to open doors to more legitimate users I've cut down the wiki block list drastically. Removed all blocks older than 6 months and changed the younger ones to expire after 6 months....
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Is it worth considering a dynamic generated block list such as the ones at [www.iblocklist.com] perhaps? I know some of those are paid subscription lists, but there are others that aren't, such as...
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> On 28/06/13 19:49, Viktor Dirks wrote: >> Hi Admins, >> >> ... regarding the forum -- in the last time the spammers get much more >> nasty with registering or >>...
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Hrm, was that applied just to a specific sub-forum, or to all forums? I just noticed what appeared to be a posting without an account in this sub-forum. Note: I did report it, so it may be gone by the...
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... it's the same thing in all forums -- Adrian did the same as I did some time ago, but the options in the forums software seems to be overriden on server-level. Seems I have to force some specific...
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Good day, all. I've been getting emails concerning reported posts, and I act promptly. I think VDX added me to the admin list, but if not, I would like to be. Thanks very much.
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Am 24.08.2013 01:05, schrieb Bill: > > I have (mostly) installed the latest Mediawiki version 1.21.1, at > [reprap.org]. It's using a separate database & > db user, so should have zero...
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I've made some adjustments to the forum permissions, posts from unregistered users are no longer allowed, anywhere. cheers, Bill
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QuoteTraumflugBlogging time :-) Notified by a lot of error messages in /var/log/forum_error_log I found images embedded into forum posts didn't work the way they should. Forum admins tended to disable...
View ArticleWiki user cleanup
FWIW, I've just deleted 33'890 inactive accounts in the wiki using this maintenance script: [www.mediawiki.org] That's about 84% of the previously 40'544 ones. Unused accounts are ones with zero edits...
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Just upgraded the Widgets extension of the Wiki from v0.8.something to v1.1. If you see issues, please report. If you want to use it, see [reprap.org] and [www.mediawiki.org]
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A genius at work! Quotebill2or3I've edited the forum file at /data/www/forums/htdocs/include/phorum_get_url.php to set it so the javascript.php requests don't have the forum id added. before: GET...
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Definitely a good thing. Q: Are we using mod_expires at all, and if not, could we consider setting it up? We can then improve the amount of client side caching that is done on things like images,...
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Pictures & co. currently expire after 30 days. And If I see Bill's work correctly, he's currently in progress with abandoning Apache entirely in favour of Nginx. Progress so far about 80%, files;...
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Administration of the reprap.org domain and its server is pretty well hidden so far. But it exists! There's a invitation-only reprap-admin mailing list and with the recent dropouts, this list became...
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