Frequently Asked Questions
Below are frequently asked questions about the migration of Veritas and Champion accounts to Webserve. If you unable to find the answers to your questions, please contact the IU Webmaster.Table of Contents
General Questions
I received an email about a web migration. Why was it sent to
me?
If you received an email about the migration it is because you are listed
as the owner or contact
person for a web account on Veritas (www.indiana.edu,
www.iun.edu, www.iuk.edu) or Champion (www.iupui.edu). If you should no
longer be associated with a web account on Veritas or Champion, please
contact IU
Webmaster and we will remove you from the account record(s) and you
will receive no further emails from us.
How can I find out which of my accounts are impacted by this
migration?
To view a list of Veritas/Champion accounts you own (authenticate
with
your personal username/passphrase):
For all accounts listed, you will be required to test and request migration in order to keep those sites active after May 12th. You may also contact IU Webmaster and we will be glad to provide you with the list of accounts you own or any accounts which have you listed as contact person.
Why do I need to test my web
account on the new server?
Since Veritas and Champion have different operating systems than Webserve,
we want to make sure that your site will function properly on the
new server before it is moved into production. By
permitting you to test your site on the
new server while your web site is still located on
Veritas/Champion, if there are any issues we can work with you on
resolving them without it impacting your production web site.
Do I need to do anything to have my web account migrated?
Yes. After you have tested the web site on the new server and are
satisfied
with the results, the owner will need to
submit a form to request migration of the account. Accounts will not be
migrated unless
this form is submitted. Additional information and
the
link to the
form can be found at: Finalize
Web Migration
What is the deadline for testing and migrating my site?
You will have through May 12th to test and request migration for your web
site. If an account owner does not submit the form to finalize
migration for their account on or before May 12th, the account will no
longer be
accessible after that date. The files left on Veritas/Champion will be
available for restoration for six months following the end of
migration.
Testing Your Account on Webserve
How do I test my site?
We have developed two checklists. Using either checklist will help you
determine whether your account is ready for migration. There is a Checklist for
Simple Sites for those accounts that consist
mainly of static HTML pages. There is also a Checklist
for Complex Sites for accounts with complex applications or those
developed using web programming languages such as PHP, Perl, etc.
How do I view the web pages in my Webserve account while my
production account is still on Veritas/Champion?
You will be able to test your web pages on Webserve by using a special URL
that will set a cookie in your browser. (For information on cookies and
what they are, see: http://kb.iu.edu/data/agwm.html.)
The presence of this cookie will be detected by load balancers and will
direct your browser to the content located on Webserve. If you have
title tags in your file, the title will be modified to indicate that you
are viewing files on Webserve. For further information on
this, see: Viewing
your site on the Linux server.
Will the web site address for
my account stay the same after my account has fully migrated?
Yes,
the account name and the web site address you use after your account has
permanently migrated to the new Linux server will be the same as what
you
use now.
What is the server/host name that I will use to connect to the
new web server?
The server name you use to connect will be:
webserve.iu.eduWill I have to move or update the content of my account on the new Linux web server?
We will automatically copy the files over to the new environment. This will be done on a nightly basis with options for you to control how the synchronization behaves. For information on this process, see: Synchronization Process.
How much disk space will I have available to me on the Linux
web server?
Once your account has migrated to the new environment, you will have 1GB
of average disk space usage available to you for free with a nominal
annual fee of $4 for each additional 1 GB block over the amount allotted
for
free.
Software Changes
What upgrades will be available to me on the new server?
We will be making several upgrades, including PHP5, Perl 5.8.8.
The MySQL servers will eventually be moved to MySQL 5 as well. Information on the MySQL upgrade will be sent to account owners as soon as
we have that information available. For a list of changes
see Software Changes. In addition, as stated
above, your account on the new web server will have 1GB of average disk
space available for use.
I have binary files in my account. Will they continue to function?
Binary files are incompatible in the Linux environment so C
programs
will need to be re-compiled. DBM and GDBM files for perl/php are not
compatible. For additional details on migrating binary files, see (you
will be required to authenticate using an IU network ID): DBM Files.
We will
write a corrected new binary
for Transform and various e-commerce varieties of Transform and E-Store.
For details on this, see: Transform
Utility.
Will I need to make any changes
to my forms or Transform templates to get them to run on the new
web server?
In most cases, you will not need to
change your forms or templates and they will function in the same manner
as
they do now. There has been a change made to Transform that may impact
your forms. For details, see (you will be required to authenticate using
an IU network ID): Transform
Utility.
Will my cron jobs continue to run on the new environment?
Cron files will be copied over but the job will not automatically run.
You will need to register your cron jobs again. For information on how to
do that see step 3 of the Cron
User's Guide
Will I be able to access the streaming server or the MySQL servers from
my Linux account during migration? Will I need to make any
changes?
The streaming server and the MySQL servers will be available. Owners of
accounts that are enabled for streaming should see the following document
for information on how the migration will impact the streaming service: Migrating
Streaming Enabled Accounts.
If your site uses applications that make any modifications to a database
on
the MySQL server, you should understand the implications
before testing your site. If during testing your applications make changes
to a database, these changes will be reflected in your production database
unless you make modifications to your applications on Webserve so that it
points to a test database instead.
I use IU's counter service on my site. Will that data be maintained
when
my account is migrated or will the counter get reset?
Current counter data will be migrated when the customer instructs us to
make the Linux-based website "live". This should minimize counter
discrepancy issues.
Will the same text editors be available on the Linux web
server?
All standard "built-in" UNIX text editors will be available. In addition,
Linux has some new text editors such as Nano which is an extended version
of Pico which includes more features, configuration options, and a search
and replace function.
Ending Migration
When I'm ready for my account to go "live" in the new
environment what steps will I take?
When you are ready to migrate your site and go into production on
Webserve, the owner will be required to submit a form requesting to
finalize migration of that account.
For information on the process and a link to the form, see: Ending
Migration of an Account.
After my account is migrated to the new Linux server, will I still be
able to access my account on the old server?
After you have migrated your account, the Veritas/Champion account will
eventually be locked and you will no longer have access to it. Once the
account has migrated, you should begin using webserve.iu.edu as the login
to your
production account.
What will happen to my account if I do not
take any action
during the migration?
Part of the migration process will require
the owner of an account to
take action by submitting a form to end migration for that account.
The owner must submit the form on or before May 12th to end migration of
the
account to move it into
production on Webserve. If no form is submitted, the site will become
inaccessible after May 12th.
It is therefore
critical
that account owners take action and submit the form to end migration for
their account during the migration
process if they wish to keep their web site active. If you own
accounts
on
Veritas or Champion that
you no longer need, please submit a Web Account
Delete Request Form. If you need assistance in identifying which
accounts you own, please contact the IU
Webmaster.
