[postgis-devel] PostGISonline.org is online :-)

[Jeff Adams]

One last-resort style of security would be:

- Make sure your router disallows communication from your virtual server to
anything else on your internal network.
- Take a snapshot of the virtual server, and restore to the snapshot every
day (or every hour).

That way if/when it gets pwned, it's only pwned for a day (or an hour).

It also has the effect of resetting the database to a known state (I'm not
sure if the site lets you write data to the DB or not).

That's inconvenient of course if you're trying to do frequent updates to
PostGIS (like from every checkin or something).

I can't connect to the site right now, I dunno if you have taken it down, or
you got slashdotted by this mailing list, or what.

Jeff

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Nicklas Avén <nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no>wrote:

>  Hallo
>
> My first attempt with postgisonline. www.postgisonline.org
>
> It is now up and running, but totally without any cosmetics.
>
> For those don't knowing what I'm talking about from some mails in 2009 it
> is an idea about a site to try and test PostGIS.
>
> It is also possible to write simple tutorials that control text, sql-code,
> background-map and a backgroundimage if wanted.
>
> The tutorial thing works and makes it possible to just pass the
> tutorial-utl as a querystring, but I have disabled it now because I don't
> know how to handle the security issues.
>
> The site is ran on linode.com as a Xen-virtulized ubuntu-server.
>
> Now there are only a few tables to use in the database but I will put in
> more.
>
> Now geometry-collections is not handled, but I think I have an idea how to
> solve that. But it will not be right now.
>
> Try it and give feedback.
>
> I will wait a few days before mailing on the user-list because I want to
> find the most obvious bugs first.
>
> I someone wants to help I'm greatful.
> I will put all code in public when I have cleaned and structured it a
> little better.
>
> I see a lot of development potential init and would like to make it some
> sort of open project.
>
> I have tried it in IE and Firefox
>
> So, navigate to www.postgisonline.org and try it
>
> Thanks
>
> Nicklas
>
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