[ahimsa-tech] ajuda tech IMC-africa

[kwadronaut]

rhatto wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I tried to access http://kenya.indymedia.org/admin but really its
> being redirected to https://kenya.indymedia.it/admin. Someone with
> access on the server where kenya.indymedia.org should change its
> virtual host and remove that redirection...
>   
Like told earlier, go to httpS://kenya.indymedia.org . Apache got fixed 
(after 2 or 3 years?), thanks to Bame for changing those 6 characters.
> Anyway... I dont have enough time to help, but people should
> check if kenya.indy is hosted on ahimsa. If so, this site should
> be migrated to another server.
>   
True: https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/AhimsaMigrationWhy and 
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/AhimsaMigration
> I dont think its a good idea to migrate it during the world
> social forum, but would be fine to do it some days/weeks after
> it, because ahimsa will go offline in the long term and I wonder
> if theres still techies taking care of the sites hosted on it...
>   
There are still techies taking care of it, but less and less... As a 
matter of a fact, I'm often bugging the people that have root access on 
it, but wouldn't mind restarting apache myself once in a while.

> I'm in hollidays from Indymedia, so can please forward it to the
> ahimsa tech list?
>
> I hope this can help someway...
>
> rhatto
>   

Thanks for your e-mail,
kwadronaut

> Em Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:56:37PM -0200, tatarana escreveu:
>   
>> Moçada,
>>
>> Será que algum de voces consegue dar uma força ou mobilizar alguém que
>> possa ajudar o povo aí!
>> Estou copiando pras duas pessoas que podem ser contactadas.
>>
>> Abraço,
>> tatarana.
>>
>> -------- Mensagem Original --------
>> Assunto: 	[Imc-africa] kenya features section - help!
>> Data: 	Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:40:17 +0300
>> De: 	Danielle Chynoweth <arthousefarm at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: 	African IMCs and the imc project in Africa
>> <imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>> Para: 	kwadronaut at autistici.org, imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
>>
>> Kwadronaut and all -
>>
>> Thank you for your help to date.  Trying to get a feature on the IMC
>> Kenya site is like having your eyeball peeled.
>>
>> I need help ASAP to get a feature up.  We have the password and have
>> removed spam anmd started posting media.  We have tons of interviews and
>> stories in progress, but no way to feature them.  I have not received
>> any response from imc-tech or imc-sys-admin so please do not tell me to
>> go there.
>>
>> K, if  you have shell access to kenya on AHSIMA, I could just hard code
>> the feature panel through the WSF.
>>
>> Here are the problems:
>> 1.
>> Most processes for the admin site seem to be linked to
>> kenya.indymedia.it <http://kenya.indymedia.it> which does not exist.  So
>> when I go to promote a story to a feature or to make a new feature from
>> the category list, I get a site not found error - (dnsserver name error)
>> for kenya.indymedia.it <http://kenya.indymedia.it>.  I can change the
>> "it" to "org" in the URL area to get into the admin site so there is a
>> workaround that seems to work erratically.
>>
>> 2.
>> With promoting features, after clicking on "make a feature" next to a
>> story, it sends me to a page to edit that feature, not promote it.  If I
>> click "add", it gives me a blank list where all features should be.
>>
>> If I go to create a new feature, I fill out the feature form, create a
>> summary in HTML, but when I click "add" it brings me to an empty
>> features list.
>>
>> What I need is for someone to go on IRC sf-active and pose this issue
>> and ask for support.  I am in a lovely lovely city where the power goes
>> out every day, where we are spending $40 a week for an internet
>> connection that crawls to 11KB/sec on an ISP that has killed several
>> laptops with virus attacks, where it took me 1 and half hours to write
>> this e-mail.  We simply can't get the support we need ourselves with a
>> back and forth on e-mail.  Please, can someone get us support on the
>> ahsima server on sf talk with this.
>>
>> Anyone can call me any time with support and I can give them admin
>> access as we trouble shoot.  My cell is 001 254 733 3187 75.
>>
>> Also, we consensed to asking Kwadronaut, who is now empowered by the
>> tech group of Kenya IMC, to help fix this - if you can and promote this
>> article: "Indymedia Radio Support for WSF2007" to the features section
>> both as a test and because that is what we want to promote.  After you
>> get one promoted we can do the rest.  If you use some kind of work
>> around, please send to us the exact step by step instructions.
>>
>> If we can't do this, can someone please help get us
>> www.indymedia.org/wsf2007 <http://www.indymedia.org/wsf2007>?  It would
>> be a shame to take the spotlight off kenya indymedia which has a number
>> of active people on the ground here (who are not regulary on the
>> internet answering to all concerns that they are not on the internet -
>> radio and print are the indymedia of much of africa, not the web, i wish
>> the network would wake up on this one).
>>
>> thanks!
>> Danielle
>>
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