First of all, welcome to the new version of twis.la, now powered by dokuwiki.
Doku is full of luvz, doku is beautiful, doku is easy, doku is your friend.
Short story: upgrade went bad, backup all data, by chance, it's the chistmas holidays, take the chance to make a clean reinstall, restore data.
More on the clean install later (it will be a page or even namespace on its own, linux/kvm with multiple BSD's running on it).
“Long” story: I made a big mistake while playing with the /usr HAMMER partition on my DragonFLy Web Server virtual Machine, I had to take it down for maintenance. Made my backups “just for the case”. Having the box backup'ed was an opportunity to upgrade the host physical machine… but as usual, murphy was there too, the box never came back online (it's a headless dedicated server without any console access, I did'nt knew why the box did not came back).
Being safe with my data, I took the opportunity to made a clean install and redo the setup of the virtual machines (I am still busy to bring everything back to life). So, kasteel now runs a small ubuntu 8.10 server linux distribution which act only as a “dom0” kvm host, all the services are jailed in different virtual machines, there is actually one OpenBSD 4.4-release, one FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE and one DragonFly 2.1.1-DEVELOPMENT. but as I said, the technical details are for another day.
This brings me to the title of the post, a great and clean technical setup is pretty uselless a few month later if you don't have any documentation. That's where doky came into the play. Wait - stop - I forgot something.
I WANTED MY WEBSITE BACK!
You all know that you don't exist if you don't have your little part of teh interwebs.
It was quite easy as all I had was static pages generated with asciidoc and igal. I'm a lazy guy, especially when it comes to web and database stuff. So, a few scripts and some tools were pretty useful to build a static website without too much trouble.
Except that I didn't edit any page for more than a year, I just dropped some files here and there on the server.
Here we are.
Dokuwiki!
All in all, it fits my needs, I found some cool plugins to add, all the blog stuff I'm using now (see this page for more info about how to set up doku as a blog), a few syntax extensions and… the other essential website component, a galery plugin !
Welcome 2009, welcome doku, let's have some fun with the web.
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