HOW TO MIGRATE

(See also: "How TO"s for club page authors)


 

1. Ask for Club Space to be created and permitted to your [current] GPU id

Contact the director of Student Groups, and tell that person the GPU id to permit the new shared space to.

Your web address ("URL") is going to be:

http://www.ualberta.ca/CLUBS/SomeFancyClubName/

... and it will be associated with the AFS disk space:

/afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/


2. Copy your old web pages to the new area:

From step 1, the director of Student Groups created a new AFS subdirectory for you, which will [kind of] match the URL you asked for...

/afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/

... and the director has permitted that AFS directory to your computing id so that you are now the kingpin/god/master/keeper of that file space.

LOG INTO GPU , and type the following command:

cd ~public_html
tar -cf . | (cd /afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/; tar -xpvf -)
 

... you may have had to "quit lynx" if you are using the menu-driven lynx help system on GPU...

 


3. Check a few house-keeping things:

 

  1. Do you have to change any of the web page links that directly referenced your old web Address?
    cd /afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/
    fgrep -i '~oldid/' *
  2. Do you have to get rid of the old EMail address, which no longer exists?
    fgrep -i 'oldid@' *
  3. Do you have to switch Geo-guest to Geo-ClubGuest?
    fgrep -i 'Geo-guest' *
  4. Do you have to re-permit any of the directories to new club members that should have "write" access?
    fs setacl /afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/ yourfriend write
    fs setacl /afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/ yourotherfriend write
    fs setacl /afs/ualberta.ca/dept/su/clubs/SomeFancyClubName/ yetanotherfriend write
     
  5. Do you want to announce the change/addition on http://www.ualberta.ca/CLUBS/News/ bulletin board?
     
    You might just want to add a little announcement to this file, so you can attract new visitors, or potential members, to your club. Consider adding your club to the Submissions page, too.



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