Hello,
I have recently been working on a project to digitize my Family's
VHS/Hi8 tapes to MP4 video files and I was wondering if anyone had any
suggestions for a simple method of sharing them via a Website.
The obvious solution at first was a private Youtube channel, however I
am becoming disgruntled with it's overzealous copyright strikes when
there is some background audio over a PA system in some videos...
I've looked at Peertube but I would like something more lightweight.
Does anyone here have any suggestions?
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William Wright
Callsign: M6WIQ
Web: https://www.m6wiq.uk
Hello.
<xxxxxxxx> Error establishing a database connection
<xxxxxxxx> This either means that the username and password information in your
wp-config.php file is incorrect or that contact with the
database server at localhost could not be established.
This could mean your host’s database server is down.
<xxxxxxxx> :((((((((
<xxxxxxxx> everything was working fine
<xxxxxxxx> might do a reboot
<xxxxxxxx> reboot didn't fix it
<xxxxxxxx> u@h:~$ sudo service mysql restart
<xxxxxxxx> Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
<xxxxxxxx> why would it just stop working out of the blue
<xxxxxxxx> stupid mysql
<grifferz> you're probably going to have to read the syslog
<xxxxxxxx> I did and it didn't help
<grifferz> well it will certainly say why it won't start
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: mysql.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: mysql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
<xxxxxxxx> Jul 28 15:38:30 cho systemd[1]: Failed to start MySQL Community Server.
<xxxxxxxx> Process: 1637 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
<xxxxxxxx> Error: 28 (No space left on device)
<grifferz> is it time for me to again say that monitoring your free
disk space is useful in avoiding service outages and that
bitfolk can do that for you for free?
<xxxxxxxx> yes please
😀
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I had a crash yesterday evening at about 7.46 UCT (the time when my monitor messaged me)
I was in middle of nowhere and took me 3 hours to be able to boot from Zen, at about 10.40 UCT
/var/log/messages shows this
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[93989]: Reached target Exit the Session.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: user(a)0.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopping User runtime directory /run/user/0...
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: run-user-0.mount: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir(a)0.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Stopped User runtime directory /run/user/0.
Jul 26 19:34:12 elm systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Started Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Timers.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Paths.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Jul 30 22:02:48 elm systemd[282311]: Reached target Sockets.
Note the future date!
Further down the log I see
Aug 3 ...
Then
Jul 24...
and then Jul 26 again
So I assume the file has got corrupted.
The first messages I can find after reboot time:
Jul 26 22:49:49 elm rsyslogd[1502]: imjournal: 414535 messages lost due to rate-limiting (20000 allowed within 600 secon
ds)
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Starting system activity accounting tool...
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Started Session 46 of user root.
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Succeeded.
Jul 26 22:50:01 elm systemd[1]: Started system activity accounting tool.
Jul 26 22:50:03 elm systemd[1]: session-46.scope: Succeeded.
And the rest of the log looks normal date and time order
Well out of my depth.
Any suggestions welcome a) to explain the above and b) where to look for cause of crash
Hugh
My VPS is receiving 250 connections per second from an IP 51.81.86.37.
This started yesterday evening. I've no idea who is doing it or why.
The logfiles are filling up as fast as I can delete them, but my website
keeps falling over as all the disk space has been filled.
Sample from syslog:
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#44122 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#44122 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
Jul 24 12:39:52 buddhismwithoutboundaries named[629]: client
51.81.86.37#17043 (.): query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
The IP belongs to a cloud hosting service, OVH. I've written an email
to abuse(a)ovh.ca, but I don't hold out much hope of them sorting it out.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I should proceed?
Ian.
Hi all,
I was working on my VM about an hour ago, and suddenly lost all
connection to
my VM on macallan.bitfolk.com
the recovery machine .console.bitfolk.com
the bitfolk website.
All back now.
It was not local to here (Bangkok) because I could reach every other
site I tried.
I would like to know what happened?
I'm guessing something got to hot on this hot day in London, and let out
its magic smoke.
Regards
Ian
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Tel (+66) 626 544 695
Hi all,
I’ve been banging my head against this issue for a couple of weeks and I’m hoping someone here can provide some guidance or sugestions.
Some Background
I run several WordPress sites on my Bitfolk VPS, and I have AWS CloudFront in front of them. Because CloudFront serves the www.domain.name<http://www.domain.name> URLs, I have origin-www.domain.name DNS entries pointing to my VPS, and Apache VirtualHosts configured that respond to multiple ServerNames and ServerAliases:
* domain.name
* origin-www.domain.name
* www.domain.name
* www-test.domain.name
On the VPS I am serving the websites over HTTP and HTTPS (using Let’s Encrypt for certificates), but CloudFront is configured to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS (using AWS Certificate Manager certificates), and to only communicate with the origin over HTTPS. The Apache VirtualHosts are configured to redirect any domain name to https://www.domain.name, which is the URL that each WordPress site is configured to use (for the WordPress Address and the Site Address).
Now to the problem
I see different behaviours with the redirects on different websites. For example, if I test all the URI combinations for one of my sites using a site like https://httpstatus.io/, I get:
1. http://wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
2. http://origin-www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
3. http://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
4. http://www-test.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www-test.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
5. https://wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
6. https://origin-www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
7. https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
8. https://www-test.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk --> website loads
On the whole, this is fine. I’d rather 1) and 4) had a single redirect to https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk but I think this is a result of CloudFront first redirecting to HTTPS and then the HTTPS site redirecting to the correct URI, so not sure I can do much about this (except maybe enable CloudFront to communicate with the origin via HTTP, and allow the HTTP origin site to redirect to the correct URI).
However, a few of my websites do this instead:
1. http://savouredescapes.com --> https://savouredescapes.com --> https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
2. http://origin-www.savouredescapes.com --> https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
3. http://www.savouredescapes.com --> https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
4. http://www-test.savouredescapes.com --> https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
5. https://savouredescapes.com --> https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
6. https://origin-www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads [not correct]
7. https://www.savouredescapes.com --> website loads
8. https://www-test.savouredescapes.com --> website loads [not correct]
For these websites, URIs 6) and 8) are not being redirected, and display the website with the original URI in the browser. All the VirtualHosts are configured the same, and look like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/savouredescapes
ServerName www.savouredescapes.com
ServerAlias savouredescapes.comorigin-www.savouredescapes.comwww-test.savouredescapes.com
<Directory /var/www/savouredescapes/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/savouredescapes-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/savouredescapes-access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =savouredescapes.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =origin-www.savouredescapes.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.savouredescapes.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www-test.savouredescapes.com
RewriteRule ^ https://www.savouredescapes.com%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
As far as I can tell, a URI like https://origin-www.savouredescapes.com should be hitting my VPS direct (no CloudFront, DNS points to my VPS) and getting redirected to https://www.savouredescapes.com, which should then be served via CloudFront. However, Apache doesn’t seem to be performing this redirect. In the Apache logs, I see entries like this in the ‘access’ log:
188.166.109.207 - - [09/Jul/2022:11:19:04 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 58957 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0"
As opposed to something like this when the redirect does work:
188.166.109.207 - - [09/Jul/2022:11:11:18 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 568 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0"
And nothing in the error logs. So I’m not sure how to troubleshoot further why the redirects aren’t working as expected for this particular website.
In addition, because this does work on some of my other sites (like the https://www.wofeckcsclub.co.uk site I first showed the results for), I presume WordPress (or something else?!?) must be doing an internal redirect, rather than Apache? Again, as far as I can tell the WordPress configurations are the same; there are no obvious plugins that would configure 301/302 redirects on the WordPress instances that do work, although that’s not to say such a plugin hasn’t been installed and configured in the past and since removed, leaving the configuration running on the WordPress site…?
I’m wondering if anyone on this list has any relevant WordPress experience, and any suggestions for files/configurations to check in WordPress to see where these redirects might be happening? Also more than happy to explore the fact that my Apache configuration could be wrong and need tuning, and open to any other suggestions to try and ‘fix’ these redirects one way or another (the main thing I want is consistency across all of them!).
Many thanks in advance,
Paul
Hi,
I held off posting this to the "announce" list because I don't
understand the problem nor fully how to avoid/fix it, but another
CentOS-using customer has today ended up unbootable through not
getting the warning so I think I better had.
Have a read of this:
https://mailman.bitfolk.com/mailman/hyperkitty/list/users@mailman.bitfolk.c…
Basically it seems at some point some CentOS update without notice
converts your grub.cfg to use "BLS" which is a thing that's Red Hat
specific and not available in upstream Grub. Since BitFolk uses
upstream Grub to boot your VMs, this leaves your VM unbootable.
There's info in that post on how to discover if this has been
enabled, and how to disable it, but it's unclear to me:
- what does it
- if it can actually be reverted once it's happened
So if you know more, please do let us know.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi All,
I would like to simplify my VM, and make it more secure by using LXC
containers. E.g.
nginx for vanilla websites
Special nginx compile for webrtc stun and turn.
Email forwarder
MySQL server
Has anyone tried this? Does it work? What about IP addresses? Any hints
tips or advice welcome.
I will naturally be testing on a VM here at home, but that will be under
Vbox, which might not work like XEN.
I hesitate to start playing with the live config again, as last time I
brought down all https sites for a week! :(
Regards
Ian
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Ian Hobson
Hi,
There's been a huge increase in the number of abuse reports we are
receiving for dictionary attacks against VNC servers through Tor
exit nodes at BitFolk.
I can't see any good reason why someone would want to use VNC
through Tor, so we've added port 5900 to the required exit policies:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Running_a_Tor_node#Required_exit_policies
All those known to be running Tor exit nodes at BitFolk are being
contacted directly to ensure this change is made, but we don't
always know if a customer is running one (until the abuse reports
come in).
Cheers,
Andy
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