Posts made by NashBrydges

How does this compare to Kanboard? Reading the feature list between the two, Kanboard appeard to have a few of the features I would consider to be critical for efficient use of a Kanban style approach like task dependencies, Gantt charts, Milestones, ability to copy a board's tasks to a new board (a la template). Curious is anyone has first hand comparison.

https://kanboard.net/

@Helen No one in their right mind is going to click on a shortened URL. No reason for a shortened URL here. I get you may be wanting to get your click reporting out of this but I think you've chosen the wrong community for a bitly link.

@G-I-Jones As Scott mentioned, HTML would render the form for your users and you would use PHP to process that form to send the email. PHP won't send the actual email, you'll need a mail server to do this, but PHP will take care of getting the information from the HTML form and adding the necessary bits and data processing to forward off your email.

One caution though...are you sending personal, private information via email? If you are, you may want to rethink your approach or at least take steps to ensure that your browser connection to the web server is secure (Let's Encrypt can help here) and that you are sending the email from a TLS enabled email server to a TLS enabled email server otherwise your data is open to interception while in transit.

Definitely more than one way to skin this cat, depending on your full requirements.

@JaredBusch I setup a cert for a Windows server just this morning using this...

https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple

Absolutely flawless on initial cert binding and scheduled task creation for renewal. Guess I'll have to wait the 89 days to see if renewal works as easily as the initial setup did.

@scottalanmiller said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

@FATeknollogee said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

@JaredBusch said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

@FATeknollogee said in Where Are You Running Nextcloud:

You use the following (please complete/add to the list)

1. Registrar: GoDaddy/Google Domains
2. DNS: CloudFlare
3. Mail: Office 365 / GSuite / Self Hosted / ZoHo
4. Web hosting: Azure / Random cheap Shared host for basic web hosting

1. ok
2. Free plan?
3. ok
4. Azure: I thought Azure was a no-go?
5. Where do you host 3rd party apps like NextCloud & OSticket?

The CloudFlare DNS is always free. It is their CDN that has paid tiers.

The free plan also include CDN.

I've been looking to make the move to CloudFlare myself for DNS but here's a question for those who already use it. The "Client maximum upload size", if Cloudflare hosts your DNS records, are you then running in a "off Cloudflare" mode to allow file uploads larger than 100MB? Just want to make sure I'm reading this correctly.

@IRJ Are you trying to set this up on Nextcloud or Owncloud. I haven't tried this on Owncloud but to be sure, I setup registration on a new system using the same instructions and was able to get full lockout for non-accepted domains.

@JaredBusch said in NextCloud / Owncloud User registration:

@JaredBusch said in NextCloud / Owncloud User registration:

Might be a way to restrict it to certain domains or something.

Yup,

FYI...this function does not work out of the box. Once you enter the domain name to restrict registration and log out and back in, all settings have been reset.

I've figured out a workaround that allows me to manually add the allowed domains in the database directly and then fix the forms so that the field values can't be changed by another admin (or by me accidentally). This has been listed as an issue for nearly a year and this was the only way I was able to stem the tide of spam registrations. Have a look here for the workaround...

https://github.com/pellaeon/registration/issues/44

@jt1001001 said in Considering Colocation - What to watch for:

Centrilogic

Ah, this is great, thanks. Would have never thought about checking for rack depth. If you have a contact I can talk to about getting quotes for the GTA area, yes, please PM me that info. Much appreciated!

@scottalanmiller Mississauga and Etobicoke are closer to me so they're obvious preferred choices. They also happen to be the less expensive of the 3 locations so that's a bonus. The Etobicoke location has pricing at $325 CDN for 10U which, frankly, is the cheapest I've seen from any colo.

@scottalanmiller Looking at 10U of rack space.

I'm just now considering colocation as a viable option to move all of the server equipment offsite. Before you ask, because of the space requirements (50+TB plus equivalent backup space) cloud isn't really an option at this point. But prices for colocation have begun to really drop, especially in the Toronto area which is near where I live and a well established colocation hub in Canada. 3z.ca prices for example have almost halved over the last few months which makes this more feasible now.

As this is my first foray into this, I'm hoping I can get some insight into what to watch out for. Specifically, where are extra costs likely to come from that may not be explicitely mentioned on websites, what questions should I be asking (beyond the usual suspects of security, network connectivity and power redundancy)?

@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu Upgrade 16.04 -> 16.10 Fails with Forbidden IP Error:

@NashBrydges Try the steps outlined here for upgrading from LTS.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes

Those are the exact same steps you've listed a few posts above. That's the process I followed where I got the error.

@DustinB3403 16.04 LTS.

@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu Upgrade 16.04 -> 16.10 Fails with Forbidden IP Error:

Just summarizing this guide here. (assuming you don't want to be on the development release I've omitted it)

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo nano /etc/upgrade-manager/release-upgrades

prompt=normal

sudo do-release-upgrade

Should do it for you.

Sadly, those are exactly the steps I've taken which got me to this point.

@momurda Yes, I was able to successfully run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade without any issues so I'm sure it isn't a connectivity issue on this end.

@gjacobse I think in this case it's definitely doable for me to just start from scratch. It's a small web app that could be migrated easily but I was hoping to have this easy one to test the upgrade process before I moved on to some of the more complicated VM where doing a backup/restore is a bigger deal.

I'll keep poking at this one for a while and see if I can figure out why it's failing before giving up and moving to starting from scratch.

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Upgrade 16.04 -> 16.10 Fails with Forbidden IP Error:

apt-get update

Yeah that works no problem at all.

@JaredBusch said in Ubuntu Upgrade 16.04 -> 16.10 Fails with Forbidden IP Error:

clear the apt cache

Hey Jared. No luck with that either.

So, on the heals of my last thread, I wanted to at least spend some time upgrading some of my Linux VMs to 16.10 and am running into an issue. When attempting to run the do-release-upgrade, I am getting this error...

Err Upgrade tool
  403  Forbidden [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [836 B]
Fetched 836 B in 0s (0 B/s)
WARNING:root:file 'yakkety.tar.gz' missing
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.

Now I know that's not my IP. I've also just completed apt-get update so network connects out ok. Not sure what would cause this error. It is the same error I get no matter which VM I attempt it on if it is running 16.04, it won't allow this upgrade to run. I've also made sure that Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.

Any ideas?

@JaredBusch said in MySQL db refusing to start after Ubuntu 16.04.1 reboot:

Now that you resolved that issue, why are you using 16.04.1?

Because testing everything before upgrading to 16.10 is more work than I have time for right now.