Gandi AI upgrade to version 1.0
By Ryan on Wednesday 18 June 2008, 07:52 - Gandi - Permalink
To be exact, the system is even being upgraded to version 1.01 following some corrections that needed to be applied to version 1.0.
This version of Gandi AI is greatly different than the version 0.9 that we released in February.
Among others, it will (finally) allow us to provide more packages more easily in the coming weeks. And yes, of course, we are going to dive deep into the ideas that you have given us in the Wishlist. Here are the changes that we have made to Gandi AI:
- [Mysql] Improvement of MySQL access and rights: we have deleted the root user for more security©Dora
- [Mysql] Leaving Gandi AI by getting root access therefore will create a MySQL root user. This is the inverse of what was previously the case, though it is for more liberty©Nicolas
- [Unix] Group management, this is necessary for certain packages
- [Apache] Addition of server aliases so that you do not need to define multiple directories to maintain just one website
- [Apache / Ftp] Addition of FTP access to one or multiple virtualhosts. The root directory is now /srv/[data_disk]/www/. This allows the user to see the list of websites that he/she manages (and only those).
- [Apache] Activation of cgi-bin for vhosts, which allows using cgi scripts
- [Apache] implementation of protected directories and thus the use of .htpasswd
- [Apache] implementation of WebDAV to manage the transmission of HTTP files
- [Apache/Awstat] Addition of a user/password to view statistics (also the possibility of changing its URL : see the wiki).
- [Apache] Better configuration of Apache in relation to the number of shares your server uses, which will also free up quite a lot of memory on servers that only use one share.
Of course, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to version 1.01
The next upgrade is planned for this summer, and should see the addition of the first large packages, such as SVN, DotClear and Drupal.
In addition, if your server only has one share, we have corrected a minor problem of excessive memory usage. To fix this, you only need to reboot your server.
Comments
Hi, there is a problem with the update process.
I tried to update my current server but GandiAI keeps telling that there is a syntax problem with a password.
I tried many times with no success
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Ivan
I think that it's not mentionned but only alpha caracters are allowed en the minimum size is 8. We will improve the message.
1.01 it's not bad news now. I expect that new upgrades will include full mail support or good integration with gandi mail. I have some client with 10+ mail boxes.....
There is a timeline for the upgrades?
Looks like it's going to be a long summer...server operation in progress...life goes by...
There's enough yelling over on the French side, so I'll leave it at a question:
I'm on Gandi AI.
When I went online for some site updates this evening, MySQL was not running on my server. I tried restarting it via the cmdline, but it failed. After rebooting the server, MySQL got running again.
Obviously, I realize that Gandi AI is not a managed VPS. But my question is simply this:
When you muck around with the upgrades or have issues or perform manintenance, do you actually check that the affected servers have all the installed processes running when you are done?