Readonly access to ask.sagemath.org

[martin....@gmx.net]

Is it possible to restore at least read-only service to ask.sagemath.org? A lot of questions seem to have answers there, according to the excerpts which pop up in Google searches, but the answers themselves are unavailable due to the down-time. And I fear that with time, if the site remains unavailable, Google might drop these hits, which would mean loosing all that valuable content.

So perhaps you can simply disable the login page, placing a useful notice there, but provide anonymous read-only access to everything else?

[William Stein]

Sure if somebody will volunteer to configure this!

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[martin....@gmx.net]

On Monday, March 17, 2014 5:37:23 PM UTC+1, William wrote:

Sure if somebody will volunteer to configure this!

Would you grant the required privileges to a person you don't know? I don't know what the current config looks like, but this doesn't sound too difficult. So if you want to (and are privileged to), you can install my SSH pubkey (e.g. from https://launchpad.net/~gagern/+sshkeys) and I'll have a look. As long as that doesn't make me responsible for unrelated requests as well, that is.

[William Stein]

Would you be interested in taking the full existing data and getting
it to work in a clean ubuntu 12.04 VM?
I think the main thing this would require is patience and django knowledge.

Right now ask runs on an old machine running Ubuntu 8.10LTS, which is
slated to be wiped anyways.
Getting ask to run on a more modern VM would be really useful, even if
it is still the old version.

Anyways, if you want to do that, then I'm particular comfortable
giving you full access to a machine I have spun up for this purpose
running on Google Compute Engine.

[martin....@gmx.net]

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:30:53 PM UTC+1, William wrote:

Would you be interested in taking the full existing data and getting it to work in a clean ubuntu 12.04 VM?
I think the main thing this would require is patience and django knowledge.

Sorry, I lack the django knowledge. I'm optimistic that I could reconfigure Apache to redirect the login page, but migrating stuff will take more time than I have at the moment. But it's good to know what the requirements are, perhaps someone else wants to help out. And I'll keep this in mind as well, if I ever find some spare time for this I'll let you know.