30 April 2026
Painful but actually fun for a change, although I do think a night out at the 'Rumours of Fleetwood Mac' concert over at Warwick University Arts Centre probably helped.
claude.ai has sort of been helping despite getting cut off after a little while, added to which while there is some useful information in the recent thread spread over several day, and I've managed to add some practical crib sheets on several matters, it has not been a particularly productive process!
We have logged a useful todo list
Completed:
✅ Second 8TB SAS disk installed smoothly -> ASR-5405Z Configuration Notes
✅ cgit working on git.rdm1.uk -> Fun with cgit and cgi services in general
✅ fcgiwrap .socket -> .sock fix restoring lsces.uk cgi
✅ auth_basic working cleanly on subdomain
✅ webstack commits to tidy up -> Webstack - Server Configuration Management2
Soon:
⬜ VSCode Remote-SSH setup
⬜ Development repos on srv10 -> sorted in the crib sheet above - have to keep everything on the one level, so the packages in /bitweaver get linked direct to /srv/git
⬜ cgitrc sections for repo grouping -> sorted in the crib sheet above
⬜ srv9 pull latest webstack commits -> which actually worked perfectly to bring srv9 in line with srv10
⬜ desktop webstack setup
Longer:
⬜ BitThemes APCu duplicate css/js bug
⬜ Smarty {code} / ckeditor fix
⬜ dhparams.pem consolidation -> Done on both machines ;)
⬜ acme.sh renewal niggles -> duff entry in config file, but next step is to drop the older style certs and just use the ecc ones.
⬜ mapserv on lsces.uk
⬜ Health dashboard in Firebird/PHP
⬜ MERG parts management
⬜ Historic map viewer (Leaflet)
⬜ wordpress_hacks.conf refinement
Just to add to the fun, I messed up and did a zypper dup on the main server before having triald it on the backup machine ... No warning we now have PHP8.5.5 after PHP8.4.20 and of cause nothing is included for firebird/interbase! So all the sites go down. The good news is that the whole point of the webstack exercise was to ensure that the the backup machine was in sync with the main server and EVERYTHING had been synced so that srv9 is running perfectly while srv10 is tits up, so hook up the the router and switch the two machine so 443 is served by srv9 and 8443 by srv10. So I can edit this blog happily and it's working fine.