[SAC] Stuck on Website Migration

Jorge Gustavo jgr at osgeopt.pt
Wed Nov 9 07:18:34 EST 2011


Hi all,

I'm with some more time available to help in this huge effort (our local 
chapter annual event was last week).

We can keep both sites (the old D5 and the new D7) up and running to 
allow a soft/slower transition. So, let's put the D7 as the OSGeo front 
end soon as we fix the login (ldap/ssl) problem and then improve it as 
we can.

So, my approach is:
i) support LDAP logins in D7 http://www-new.osgeo.org/
ii) support SSL in D7 http://www-new.osgeo.org/
iii) make it the OSGeo home, with links to the old D5 site
iv) add modules, contents, etc
...

Regards,

Jorge

P.S. I'm running D7 in our local chapter, http://osgeopt.pt, with LDAP 
support (also shared wiki.osgeopt.pt and blog.osgeopt.pt sites), but not 
with SSL.

Currently, every local member has to register on the wiki (Mediawiki sw) 
that has LDAP read/write support. The wiki registration process creates 
the account on the LDAP, and afterwards users can login on the D7 site 
and on Wordpress based blog.

Em 08-11-2011 20:52, Tyler Mitchell escreveu:
> Hi all, I've been working on migrating the main www.osgeo.org sites over to new infrastructure
> but realise it's more than I can realistically handle at this point in time, mostly because we
> currently run Drupal v5 and I can't handle the migration to a new server, plus upgrade to v6 or v7,
> plus implement new theming as well as new content...
>
> What I've been able to do:
> * Put up a skeleton of the site at www3.osgeo.org using the new theme (Drupal v6)
> * Put up a raw copy of the site at www2.osgeo.org - without a proper front page or full use
> of the new theme (Drupal v6)
> * Put up a basic copy of a Drupal v7 site at http://www-new.osgeo.org/ with parts of the
> redesigned theme (v7) in action
>
> Challenges:
> 1. Moving FDO and MGOS sites as well
> 2. Deciding on v6 or v7 site
> 3. Some modules between v5 and v6 and v7 aren't available
> 4. Can't get LDAP module in v6 or v7 working
> 5. Can't get SSL running properly for secure logins
> 6. New theme requires some new content to be created, as outlined at
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/sitemap/sitemap.svg (green links are
> existing content, black are new ones that are needed)
>
> More issues have popped up but these are the main ones.  I have limited time available
> to help with this so am just putting it on your radar as an area where someone else needs to
> "own" the website as a project or a broader community review of the website needs (along
> with new solutions/ideas) may be in order.
>
> If you are interest/available to take this over, I suggest to introduce yourself and your interest
> on the webcom or SAC lists.  I'm available for questions but have limited time to do much
> technical work at this point.
>
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