Discuss prepare migration and adjust settings #152

This is the parent task about migrating Specifiction Discourse installation into WebPlatform infrastructure.

Estimated steps

• Create Piwik tracking code, add in the notes below
• Make a full install of Discourse, made via Salt Stack, configuring automatically Docker
• Document how to migrate a backup
• Have fully functional site, without broken images
• Create key sets for connected OAuth reliers: [Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Google, Yahoo]
• Make discourse.specifiction.org redirects to equivalent on https://discuss.webplatform.org
• Until migration is complete; Create sticky post warning that its not migrated yet

Please do not use this forum just yet. While we plan to migrate discourse.specifiction.org into discuss.webplatform.org, the migration isn’t completed yet. Any content you write here WILL be overwritten.

Dependencies

• Sub tasks
  • Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use #161 so when a user sends an email to reply to a thred, email gets converted into a reply
  • Make Discourse have automatic database backup #154 setup backups into DreamObjects S3 bucket
  • Discourse get real IP Address behind Fastly #163 get real IP Address behind Fastly

Time estimate

• Spent: 16h (so far)

Work notes

This should complete what’s noted in commit webplatform/www.webplatform.org@a548a5f

In Preferences -> Admin -> Settings:

• Required
  • Title: WebPlatform Discuss
  • Contact email: team-webplatform-admin@w3.org
  • Notification email: notifier-discuss@webplatform.org
  • Favicon url: https://www.webplatform.org/logo/logo.png
  • Apple touch icon url: https://www.webplatform.org/logo/wplogo_nocopy.png
  • logo url: https://www.webplatform.org/logo/discuss.png
  • logo small url: https://www.webplatform.org/logo/discuss_w.png
• Login
  • Refer to private/pillar/accounts/production.sls notes.
• long polling base url: https://discusspolling.webplatform.org/
• pop3 polling host: TODO Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use #161
• pop3 polling port: TODO Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use #161
• pop3 polling username: TODO Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use #161
• pop3 polling password: TODO Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use #161

In Preferences -> Admin -> Customize:

• Colors (create one Color scheme entry), use:
  • primary: 333
  • tertiary: 30B4C5
  • header background: 58595B
  • header primary: F0EBDD
  • highlight: FFC621
  • danger: D02E27
  • success: 75C9B3
  • love: EE677E
  • wiki: 30B4C5
• CSS/HTML
  • in Migrated from Site Text, copy what’s in body
  • Delete Migrated from Site Text, check first if there’s something elsewhere than body
  • Create new, let’s call it Discuss, add:

    • CSS

      @font-face{
        font-family: 'Bitter';
        font-weight: normal;
        src: url('//www.webplatform.org/assets/fonts/bitter-regular-webfont.eot');
        src: url('//www.webplatform.org/assets/fonts/bitter-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
             url('//www.webplatform.org/assets/fonts/bitter-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
             url('//www.webplatform.org/assets/fonts/bitter-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
             url('//www.webplatform.org/assets/fonts/bitter-regular-webfont.svg#BitterRegular') format('svg');
      }
      #main .extra-info h1 {
        font-size: 1.3em;
        font-family: Bitter;
        font-weight: normal;
      } 

    • body (what was in "Migrated from Site Text" at body);

      <footer id='custom-bottom' class='container'>
        <p>
          You can follow <a href='https://twitter.com/WebPlatform'>@WebPlatform</a>, or
          send feedback to <a href='https://twitter.com/robinberjon'>@robinberjon</a>.
        </p>
      </footer>
      <!-- Piwik -->
      <script type="text/javascript">
        var _paq = _paq || [];
        _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
        _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
        (function() {
          var u="//stats.webplatform.org/";
          _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'piwik.php']);
          _paq.push(['setSiteId', 11]);
          var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
          g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.defer=true;g.src=u+'piwik.js';s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
        })();
      </script>
      <noscript><p><img src="//stats.webplatform.org/piwik.php?idsite=11" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
      <!-- End Piwik Code -->

  • Click "Enabled?" checkbox at the bottom right

In states

• Edit code/files/discuss/app.yml.jinja, replace this block;

  -  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: localhost
  +  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: {{ smtp }}

• Ensure that Docker PostgreSQL VM (dbpostgres) has its private IP updated in private/pillar/accounts/production.sls private pillars. In contrast to MySQL config, this is where the Discourse config will get which PostgreSQL database server to connect to.

  accounts:
    discourse:
      db:
        hostname: 10.10.10.192