[Dissent-tech] web resources for dissent network ('anti g8')

[Space Bunny]

Hello dissenters (tech crew),

I offered (temp?) hosting for g8 stuff before on a decent London based 
server I have access. I can set up user account for any one here who 
wants one to put up G8 pages or the like. I can also offer MySQL db, as 
well as php, ssi, python.
I am willing to set stuff up if it will be used. I can set up a MoinWiki 
( http://moin.sourceforge.net/ ) per domain as have this server wide. An 
example of it's use is at http://geneva03.net/

Support will be limited. But there again support from riseup.net and 
mutualaid.net is limited too.

bozavine who has tried to sort page on riseup a while back took up offer 
from me in meantime before at http://g8.ourmayday.org
I assume he still has details to access those pages.
That was temp domain any other which can be pointed at my server can be 
mapped to it.

Note check you can set dns up on any domain service you get with domain 
to point to servers. Not all do they often just have redirects.

I use http://justthename.co.uk for uk domains.
As will many online domain purchases, a person other than registant can 
pay with credit/debit card and the credit card details are not kept 
after a few weeks.

If the someone else does not object I help with purchase domain, on 
behalf of dissent network.

http://www.just-the-name.co.uk/whois.shtml?domain=dissent&tld=org.uk

Round robin dns which sara mention may be a good idea for static pages 
but need to move dns to someone willing to set up
but with .uk domain name dns need to be uknic tag holder or extra 80 
pounds a year charge, which is why I generally buy top level domain 
names from http://gandi.net or http://joker.com . If someone outside EU 
is registant etc. they are VAT free.

Sheff mayday knows same uknic tag-holder, WebArch as  I do. They are 
hosting this mailing list. But one would have to ask them if they want 
to run dns for this domain. They may not as legal complaints may go to 
them. One would have to ask.

One trouble with round robin dns is it added complications if you want 
to use any dynamic database driven web solution (content management 
system) rather than static pages. Some CMS such as MIR produce statics 
pages. IMC Germany uses it on  a round robin dns. But I suggest a LAMP 
based CMS such as Mambo ( http://www.mamboserver.com/ ), which can look 
very elegant full XHTML templating ie can use tools such as dreamweaver 
with extention to add interactive elements to templates
( see http://peace-justice.movingpages.org/scrshot/mamdream.jpg )  but 
has advantages of gui web interface for maintance. One can test out 
differnet cms at: http://opensourcecms.com but it only has older version 
of mambo and the java script admin menus have been made more cross 
browser since.

http://www.peace-justice.movingpages.org

That peace and justice site is not a real/offical website for actual 
peace and justice centre nor was any template design done on it, it was 
just put up by a friend to demo funtionality of a cms. One can choose 
which interactive elements one has they are all easily loaded 
modules/components.



I have also set up a wiki page before at:
http://www.ourmayday.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?G8-Britain

Anyone can edit the page, if they have confidence to go for it. Click on 
edit this page at bottom.
But you may want to see first:
http://www.ourmayday.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Text_Formatting_Rules
and play around in:
http://www.ourmayday.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Sandbox

buy for now.

cheers,

Space Bunny
http://j12.org/news/other.htm
http://j12.org/sb/

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