Two changes have been pushed to the servers at this time.

  1. The first set of changes are in response to a configuration problem on Aleph early this morning that temporarily resulted in Web server being inaccessible:
    • The first is a set of changes designed to allow graceful recovery of the Web server on stale configuration. If the server is found to be down, then a rapid restart is issued, followed by a configuration check and optional rebuild if the configuration is found to be out-of-date.
    • Secondly, a dirty state has been added to the Apache configuration following removal of an account. Configuration rebuilds are skipped after a site is removed as removal generally occurs in batches. Failure to rebuild the configuration after removal results in a non-recoverable error. Garbage collection is scheduled 30 minutes after removal of a site to ensure that the dirty state is removed by rebuilding the configuration files.
  2. Control panel redirects will use HTTP (http://) instead of HTTPS (https://). Firefox 3 and IE7 have made self-signed certificates much more confusing to accept. You may switch to HTTPS by clicking on the “Non-SSL Connection” link on the login portal or “Insecure Connection” in the top bar after logging into the control panel.
Service monitoring and esprit configuration changes