NEW JOWETT HOST SITE

[Keith Clements]

JowettTalk and JowettGAllery are temporarily housed on my home website. Please use as you would normally do.

This was necessary because StreamLine.net had effectively killed the site. This may have been due to a problem of referential integrity I found in the Gallery Database. Or it may have been due to the large number of photos in some albums taking excessive time to display. Anyway after a week of debugging and testing the site is now moved. Hopefully only a few posts may have been lost. If there were let me know. Currently the site is on an old PC so will be slow.

I am not letting my super Intel I7 8x processor box anywhere near the Internet! However an older Pentium may be brought into service if Streamline do not reinstate the service.

Note that some links on jowett.org pages may not work; but those on the home page do redirect to keithclements.co.uk. Replace any links you have by swapping jowett.org with keithclements.co.uk

[Keith Andrews]

Currently the site is on an old PC so will be slow.

Rubbish...it is quite crisp.

You may have to do the vitural servers redirect (maybe use the no ip dns)because http://jowett.net/forum doesnt work and link from www.jowett.org goes to http://jowett.net/forum/

[Forumadmin]

Finished transfer at midnight last night so no time to tidy up. Just killed JowettTalk and JowettGallery on jowett.org and redirected on home page.

Will point jowett.org to keithclements.co.uk when I return from Rally if host company has not reinstated a decent service!

There is a problem currently with the webservice failing. Leo and I are in conversation on it. I rapidly installed the website, php and mysql. Then the website had to be converted from Linux to Windows. So may have missed something. Also may have transferred a bug or hack from the old website. If it fails over the weekend then sorry you will have to wait till Tuesday!

[Keith Andrews]

So may have missed something.

Also look at the address of post notification in admin cp

[Keith Clements]

Just changed the config page in forum admin. So more should now work.

emails may still not work as there is no email facility yet on kc.co.uk and forum uses jowett.org for email.

Just tested and they do for me. Wonders will never cease.

Still seem to be getting the occasional unloaded icon or picture (red cross). Let me know if this happens to you. It seems to be fixed by rebooting the firewall rooter, so may have to ditch that. It is about 13 years old now! It could be just the delay in the upload link or in the oldPC that is driving the site. I may try a trial on my altenative Internet network link, ISP provider and new firewall that protects the i7 PC. That way nothing is the same.

Seems to also be fixed by restarting the website. So more investiation needed.

[Keith Andrews]

Yes posting emails working..redirecting fine
Some icons where missing but that I considered a small bug rather than a serious function not working at this stage
yes that seems fixed

It seems to be fixed by rebooting the firewall rooter, so may have to ditch that. It is about 13 years old now!

Is it something like a cisco 827...they where good in their day....I obsoleted mine for aadsl2 d link.... the cisco limited bw to about 65 meg and a few other small ineffective things showed up after the change
Also have a backup 3 com..much of a muchness between them

You on apache or iss ?

[Forumadmin]

On iis. xp.
May try to get windows 2008 server or linux/ apache working .

The Windows 2003 / isa server that I used to use till the server it was running on died was the best as I was able to secure it easily.

Getting the website working only took a couple of hours , getting it secure took another 50 last week. It probably needs a second security audit as XP is full of holes, so may find time this week.

[Keith Andrews]

I have run my Apache server on xp pro for the last 5 yrs, before that it was a 98 machine.
I look at the seurity thing 1st from the sources..ie the main 'attaction' is from 3 sources..Im talking script kiddies rather than spam/email bots.
1/bots googling form "phpbb" in the copyright notice, which I changed the wording
2/Source also from following links from other sites
3/Bots are from Turkey, Brazil, Russia, Korea, China and several other counties....as these countries have very little interest in jowetts, or parrots they are just blocked

3/ then took several 100 to just under 1000 attempts per day down to a little over hand full... a little more refining of some isps and individual ips reduced to 2 to 4 per day...this also took out damn near all spam attempts and email bots.

Up to a couple yrs ago I would get hacked a couple times a yr...
This was not an issue....the partition the apachie server is on is ghosted 2x a day.... 5 mins and all back in action.
Since mass blockng countries and isps that do not enforce 'rules' never been hacked since

Instead of putting steel bars on windows to stop 'football hooligans' I have simply stopped all 'footballers' from places where they have no interest in jowetts or parrots.

Then I go the next step and run phpnuke 7.2 /phpbb2 patched rather than the plain phpbb which is far more secure.

In the early days I spent weeks constantly updating, re securing and chassing my tail....something I have not had to do for some 3 yrs now....
Thu I have recently upgraded from postcast smtp server to full smtp/pop/imap server with hmailer and squirrel web mail....most of the time spent has been changing code in squirrel to use the same image backgrounds as the web sites....and make a little more similar to exchange.

IF I had to setup from scratch again , I would again do exactly what I have done todate....less work, less stuffing around, less chassing my butt hr after hr.


PS I have a static ip and use no ip for dns for all the web sites...