[ibiblio-announce] php5, Wordpress and other updates
Don Sizemore
dls at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Jan 18 09:25:44 EST 2007
Hi ibiblio-announce,
1) PHP-5.1.6 is installed in a testing capacity on our development web
server. If you'd like to test your code, please do browse to:
http://www-dev.ibiblio.org/yoursite
or, if your site is virtually hosted:
http://www.yourdomain.org.test.ibiblio.org
Many of our sites look fine under PHP5, but we know of several that do
not. This may not be the final PHP5 engine that will go into production,
so please don't fret if your code breaks under it. As always, drop a note
to help at ibiblio.org with any questions or suggestions.
2) Wordpress 2.0.7 was released this week to address security and bug
fixes, and contains a fix for the feedburner problem mentioned on
webgroup. If you run Wordpress on ibiblio, please do take a moment to
perform this painless upgrade.
3) We're beginning a series of infrastructure version updates, beginning
with PHP5 mentioned above, and the MySQL servers we think will be next.
We are building a new, more powerful login.ibiblio.org with current
software, and are excited about the possibility of new hardware and the
improved services we hope to offer. This is all coming down the pipe, one
service at a time.
4) Finally, and this is the least pleasant... We have had some security
problems resulting from the remote exploitation of out-of-date content
management installations. If you have installed phpBB, phpMyAdmin,
Wordpress, MediaWiki, or any other such content management system,
*please* subscribe to that CMS' announcement list in order to stay aware
of new releases and any security problems they may present. We would
prefer that phpMyAdmin in particular be protected by an .htaccess file,
especially since a large number of users shouldn't be accessing any
particular installation. Drop a note to help at ibiblio.org if you have any
questions about upgrading or protecting your CMS installation.
ibiblio is a group effort. We are working to improve the services we
offer to you, our contributors, and we ask that you in turn keep us in
mind when you set up a new CMS, or more importantly when you decide to
cease using that CMS. We're working on a way for us to offer centrally-
installed and managed installations of MediaWiki, Wordpress, Lyceum,
Joomla, Drupal, and possibly others - but we're not there yet.
We're excited about the things in store for us in 2007. We're starting
with the service upgrades mentioned above, and are working on a much
broader proposal which would allow us to completely redesign our
infrastructure if we can make it happen. Wish us luck! and thank you
for continuing to host your sites with ibiblio.
thank you, 919.962.5646 w
donald sizemore, ii 919.260.4915 c
ibiblio.org n stoof 919.962.8071 f
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