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<body>Hallo Jeff<br />
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It should be up and running. From here it seems to work.<br />
Strange if you can't reach it.<br />
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About the VPS, my understanding is that it is the case as you say. In Linode you have to activate an internal IP-address if you want to communicate inside the datacenter. Since I haven't done that I guess my VPS is harmless for the rest of the virtual servers. <br />
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I am very impressed so far by linode.com. It was very easy to make an image copy of the whole server, so I have one copy saved.<br />
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I'm not worried about the site in itself, as you say I can just boot the copy instead. What I don't want is an attacker using the server for spamming or sending out virus. Then I think the site will soon be closed down. <br />
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About updateing on commit I have thought about it and I think that's a good idea. <br />
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There is two alternatives. Just a dropdown choosing database between latest stable PostGIS installation and nightly build or a special folder for development snapshot site. I think the latter is better to keep the frontside as simple as possible since it is the people not knowing so much about PostGIS and spatial querieng that I think is the main target. <br />
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But I absolutely think it would be cool if anyone could test tnew functionality right after commit even if they are not compiling themselves.<br />
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How to make a script running once a day. I guess the script in i self must be quite simple when the only thing to do is<br />
update svn<br />
configure make make install<br />
restart server<br />
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Can you still not reach the site?<br />
Thanks<br />
Nicklas<br />
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2010-03-08 Jeff Adams wrote:<br />
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One last-resort style of security would be:<br />
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>- Make sure your router disallows communication from your virtual server to anything else on your internal network.<br />
>- Take a snapshot of the virtual server, and restore to the snapshot every day (or every hour).<br />
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>That way if/when it gets pwned, it's only pwned for a day (or an hour).<br />
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>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).<br />
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>That's inconvenient of course if you're trying to do frequent updates to PostGIS (like from every checkin or something).<br />
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>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.<br />
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>Jeff<br />
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<div>On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Nicklas Avén <<a>nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no</a>> wrote:<br />
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<div>My first attempt with postgisonline. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.postgisonline.org">www.postgisonline.org</a></div>
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<div>It is now up and running, but totally without any cosmetics. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>It is also possible to write simple tutorials that control text, sql-code, background-map and a backgroundimage if wanted.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>The site is ran on <a target="_blank" href="http://linode.com">linode.com</a> as a Xen-virtulized ubuntu-server. </div>
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<div>Now there are only a few tables to use in the database but I will put in more.</div>
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<div>Now geometry-collections is not handled, but I think I have an idea how to solve that. But it will not be right now.</div>
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<div>Try it and give feedback.</div>
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<div>I will wait a few days before mailing on the user-list because I want to find the most obvious bugs first.</div>
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<div>I someone wants to help I'm greatful.</div>
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<div>I will put all code in public when I have cleaned and structured it a little better.</div>
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<div>I see a lot of development potential init and would like to make it some sort of open project. </div>
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<div>I have tried it in IE and Firefox</div>
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<div>So, navigate to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.postgisonline.org">www.postgisonline.org</a> and try it</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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