maintaining the mathwiki server

mathwiki is hosted by IT on a server that lives at: lthmathwiki.kaust.edu.sa

You can log in to gitit as long as you have an authorized private key. If there are any issues, contact Stan or David (who have logins).

You will notice that logging in to gitit by default starts in a very primitive shell. This is for security and your inconvenience. The first command I type when I login is:

/bin/bash

Once you have started bash, you have access to the command line history. I only do about three different things on the box, the most important is modifying the list of users with HTTPS access. Modify that file with the following command:

vi /app/samp/apache-2.2.22/conf/PASSWORDS

The format is simply the output of

htpasswd -n username

htpasswd is available by default on OS X boxes, and is otherwise easy to obtain as a local install on Linux machines.

If you need to tinker with the gitit configuration, the file is located at:

/export/home/gitit/pagedown-wiki/pagedown-wiki.conf

If you need to find the running gitit job to kill it, you need to use a slightly Solarisy version of ps:

ps -A | grep gitit

Just follow this with kill jobid.

If you then want to start gitit again after you have killed it, run the following command:

/export/home/gitit/pagedown-wiki/rungitit1710.sh

Basic installation notes are located at aron/install_notes/gitit_install_notes.