I want to remove all users, messages, ect but keep the vm settings.
Is it possible to entirely factory-reset an HipChat server?
There isn't an official way to do this right now. You could try to remove the data from MariaDB, Redis and ElasticSearch and reboot, but it might leave your server in a non-supported state. I would redeploy a fresh OVA/AMI instead.
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When I host the bot using Heroku it no longer calculates the JSON files (even if it makes them work they do not appear) and when I restart it is as if nothing had happened and reset everything.
How can I do?
Heroku does not store changes made to files. Heroku dynos restart every once in a while, and that is when data is lost; redeploying the app can also cause the data to be lost. Using a third-party database, such as MongoDB is recommended.
I know that https://forge.laravel.com/auth/register is available for $12/month*, but I'd like to understand how to accomplish the same thing myself.
What I assume is possible (and what I'm looking for): I create a server that has only Ubuntu 18.04.3 installed and nothing else, and I upload a script that installs all the appropriate software and sets up MySQL with the correct passwords, etc (without manual intervention).
I've tried Laradock and had tons of problems with Docker and don't want to do that anymore.
I see that https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new lets me create a LEMP droplet (Ubuntu, Nginx, MySQL, PHP-FPM) with one click. But it lacks Redis, and its versions are outdated (e.g. PHP 7.2).
I've heard people mention Chef (maybe this?), but that seems to be more complicated than what I'm imagining.
Unfortunately I'm not even sure how to search for what I'm trying to do (or how to tag this question); is this called "server provisioning"? I've been searching phrases like "automatic install script redis mysql server for laravel".
Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.
* I also just found https://getcleaver.com/ and https://runcloud.io/server-management, which each look like Forge + Envoyer (and RunCloud offers a free plan).
It is called server provisioning and Chef would be a good fit for this, check out Ansible too - another thing you could do is setup the server yourself and create an image from that server and then base your new servers out of that image, that way you'll have all your services installed from the start.
This sounds like a job or something like Puppet (or Chef/Ansible), however Laravel Envoy may be another tool to look at if you haven't already for the second part of your problem.
I highly recommend Heroku (or similar service), as this is all done out of the box, and has a ton of other great features that make developing a pipeline a breeze.
Our web developer picked OctoberCMS to develop our new website (his skill). Unfortunately before completion he rapidly left us due to health reasons and is no longer available. His Ubuntu environment has some problems and we need it on CentOS 7 anyway. The rest of us are OctoberCMS newbies, but want to learn it.
We built a CentOS 7 VM and installed OctoberCMS and want to move his work over.
We can not find any instructions on how to "export" the work he has done thus far and import it into our new OctoberCMS.
He is using 10 plugins and 3 he developed. (I don't know if that is relevant)
Is there an easy way to do this or at least instructions?
We have been googling, youtubing, IRC'ing for a week and still at a loss.
Any help would be most appreciated.
There really isn't anything special you need to know about moving an OctoberCMS install to a new server compared to moving over any other PHP application.
I am assuming you know how to do the basics of setting up a LAMP stack, such as setting up a virtual host for the domain you want to host the site on and setting up a MySQL database and user/password to access the database. There are of course many variants on how you could accomplish this such as using a management tool like Plesk or cPanel, or just configuring the services manually via the command line.
1) Ensure your new server is running at least roughly the same version of Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
2) Copy over the directory that contains all of the web files from the old server into the document root for your domain on the new server.
3) Do a database dump from the old server and copy it to the new server. If possible, use the same database name and username and password as the old server. This way you don't have to worry about updating the configuration of the website.
4) Pull up the site and troubleshoot any errors that come up. It is helpful if OctoberCMS debug mode is on.
Following the above method will ensure that you have the exact same setup on your new server that the old server had. This will copy over all of the plugins, data, etc.
There are of course many complexities that can come up during a switch over like this, but this should at least get you started and you can come back to StackOverflow with some more specific hurdles.
Hope that helps.
Using HyperLedger Composer 0.19.1, I can't find a way to undeploy my business network. I don't necessarily want to upgrade to a newer version each time, but rather replacing the one deployed with a fix in the JS code for instance. Any replacement for the undeploy command that existed before?
There is no replacement for the old undeploy command, and in fact it it not really undeploy - merely hiding the old network.
Be aware that everytime you upgrade a network it creates a new Docker Image and Container so you may want to tidy these up periodically. (You could also try to delete the BNA from the Peer servers but these are very small in comparison to the docker images.)
It might not help your situation, but if you are rapidly developing and iterating you could try this in the online Playground or local Playground with the Web profile - this is fast and does not create any new images/containers.
I'm fairly new to server administration. I have my Laravel app up and running and I want to make sure it has proper backups. I have researched some backup packages and I have settled on https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup.
However, once the server fails, I need to know how to use the most recent backup (which will be on AWS S3) to restore the database on the rebuilt server. Are there any suggestions for guides on how to do this? I can't seem to find any unless it doesn't really require much learning and instead just a couple mySQL commands.
Thanks!
I would use replication and within Laravel i would try to switch connection to the replica database server so things can run smoothly until the problem is resolved.
Take a look at this Cross-Region Replication
A typical production environment is automatically running backups on most important things that your deployment needs in order to recover from a failure. Those parts would commonly be your database and storage folder, and configuration files.
Also when you deploy a laravel application there aren't many things that are "worth" backing up , you can choose the entire disk to be mirrored somewhere or you can schedule a backup script which run every N times and backups the things that are more important to your application.
Personally i wouldn't rely on an package from laravel to handle my backups , you can always use other backup utilities, replication and so on.
Update
Take a look at the link below:
User Guide » Amazon RDS DB Instance Lifecycle » Backing Up and Restoring
Backing Up and Restoring
You can call the API function RestoreDBInstanceFromDBSnapshot as showed on example.
But i don't think something automated exists that would auto restore or magically make everything work, you need to do a lot of security checks if something like that would even be attempted. Final word i believe a good solution manually entering or sending the request would be the most solid solution.