The UCC Website
Kinda sucks. We have people fixing it.
It's not just webmasters than can write things to go on the website! E-mail it to us and we'll upload it, and you can apply for membership of webmasters simply by e-mailing the list or by bullying a nearby Wheel member. If you don't want to be a webmaster but do want to add content to the site, the best format to send us the content in is plain text.
Editing
To edit a page on the UCC website, you need to first be in the webmasters group (www-data). Files are located in /services/http. Next edit the .ucc file for the page you want to edit (NOT the .html, these are old out of date pages that need to be deleted).
ucc-parser
See docs on the ucc-parser Kondo here: https://ucc.asn.au/kondo/
.ucc files are handled by Apache using its Handlers system. The critical lines occur in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and are as follows:
Action ucc-parsed /cgi-bin/ucc-parser AddHandler ucc-parsed .ucc
It should also be noted that /etc/apache2/sites-available/default should be configured so as to have index.ucc be the default index file, that is:
DirectoryIndex index.ucc index.html index...
In addition, any conflicting DirectoryIndex entries (such as that in /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf) should be dealt with accordingly (in the case of dir.conf, the line can simply be commented out).
This section written 2013-11-07. Knowing UCC this will remain long after it is made invalid.
A note on permissions
There are a number of files that webmasters can not access, mostly because there is no need. Here is a short list to save you a lot of time and sanity: anything to do with 'planet ucc' and its associated styles, and any of the wiki config/theme files. Luckily for you, these files are segregated from the rest of the site and the need to change them is very rare.
Pages that should be written
Services
- Wireless
- PPTP
SVN/CVS? include ViewCVS at http://cvs.ucc.asn.au/ - monotone too. DRAFT at http://ucc.asn.au/services/vcs.ucc
IRC server irc://mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/#ucc - well we have a page at irc.ucc, but it needs to be less 'policy' and more 'how-to'
PostgreSQL/MySQL? these are actually useful if you know about them. There's also several installations, up to one per machine - should consolidate if appropriate. DRAFT at http://ucc.asn.au/services/sql.ucc
Pages that need updating
Infobase
- FAQ - incorrect and largely redundant "I vote we just get rid of it, we have so many questions that we need a wiki, not an FAQ [BOB]"
- Newsletters - someone upload the 06 Murphy's Lore?
Services
- snack.ucc - needs some new pics, and updating
- news.ucc - needs about four more lines to make it useful "I think this is redundant, orphaned, and out of date for a reason - nobody uses it. I vote we delete it [BOB]"
- web.ucc - ucc-adduser creates web directories these days, add info about the proxying we do, how you can't use .htaccess to do IP filtering without mod_rewrite, why to not rely on HTTP_CLIENT_IP or whatever the header is, etc.
- ftp.ucc - probably needs reworking for SFTP or deleting entirely
Anything on the OrphanedPages list probably needs some work and better incorporating into the site.
