# Administration **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/c/administration/10.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [About the Administration category](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/about-the-administration-category/19)
**Author:** [@Fourmilab](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Fourmilab)\ **Replies:** 0
This is the parent category for information about the SCANALYST site itself and the Discourse software upon which it is based. --- ## [Welcome to SCANALYST](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/welcome-to-scanalyst/7)
**Author:** [@system](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/system)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [20 October 2021 00:03 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/welcome-to-scanalyst/7 "2021-10-20T00:03:20Z")
SCANALYZER, modeled on John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, surveys the scene under four rubrics: The Happening World, Context, Continuity, and Tracking with Closeups. The main focus is on science, technology, mathematics,… --- ## [Development Log 2024-01-09](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2024-01-09/4200)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [9 January 2024 23:26 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2024-01-09/4200 "2024-01-09T23:26:17Z")
2024 January 9 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2024-01-09 ami-055403d5469ed61d9 / snap-07eeeedf7ed788c93 /server snap-09bb495532d4d398a Applied all u… --- ## [Development Log 2023-12-29](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-12-29/4153)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [29 December 2023 15:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-12-29/4153 "2023-12-29T15:09:49Z")
2023 December 29 Disabled: Settings/Postings/title prettify This gets rid of the maddening enforcement of capitalisation of the first character in post titles. What finally tore it for me is when it insisted on cap… --- ## [Development Log 2023-11-10](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-10/3978)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [10 November 2023 21:40 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-10/3978 "2023-11-10T21:40:57Z")
2023 November 10 Large blocks of \ formatted text, as we use in the site development log and system narratives, were truncated because the CSS for the default theme contained the declaration: pre { max-h… --- ## [Development Log 2023-11-09](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-09/3968)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [10 November 2023 00:16 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-09/3968 "2023-11-10T00:16:32Z")
2023 November 9 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-11-09 ami-09574be09c7151647 / snap-023f74080de3bcf1e /server snap-0371f52e422c84929 Applied all … --- ## [Development Log 2023-11-05](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-05/3947)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [5 November 2023 15:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-11-05/3947 "2023-11-05T15:23:10Z")
2023 November 5 We have been running on the AWS Linux 2023 platform since 2023-10-16 with no problems and we're not going back, so it's time to get rid of the legacy instance and its storage volumes, which are running u… --- ## [Development Log 2023-10-26](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-26/3914)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [26 October 2023 22:35 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-26/3914 "2023-10-26T22:35:46Z")
2023 October 26 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-09-26 ami-02fc66d86e718da32 / snap-0c298002492e1b086 /server snap-0e1a479d7e9f51ed6 The system h… --- ## [Development Log 2023-10-17](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-17/3876)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 October 2023 18:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-17/3876 "2023-10-17T18:34:05Z")
2023 October 17 In the Scanalyst Security Group, sg-049b61db659446aab: Deleted the following unused security group items: sgr-01296493496d95a8a TCP/591 HTTPS IPv4 Media Server sgr-0946534269028… --- ## [Development Log 2023-10-16](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-16/3872)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 October 2023 20:49 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-16/3872 "2023-10-16T20:49:34Z")
2023 October 16 Removed the "sc2" entry from /etc/hosts on Hayek. Its IP address is obsolete anyway after we've stopped and restarted the instance. If we've given up on using this machine as its own content delivery s… --- ## [Development Log 2023-10-15](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-15/3869)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 October 2023 01:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-15/3869 "2023-10-16T01:19:09Z")
2023 October 15 Given the complexity and interactions among all of the moving pieces of this site, this is what appears to be the best plan to complete the migration. 1. Place the production site in read-only mode… --- ## [Development Log 2023-10-14](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-14/3862)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [16 October 2023 00:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-10-14/3862 "2023-10-16T00:50:42Z")
2023 October 14 Began the process of migrating the SCANALYST site to Amazon Linux 2023. Created a new instance with: AMI: Amazon Linux 2023 AMI 2023.2.20231011.0 x86\_64 HVM kernel-6.1 … --- ## [Development Log and Maintenance Downtime 2023-10-15](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-and-maintenance-downtime-2023-10-15/3867)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [15 October 2023 18:58 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-and-maintenance-downtime-2023-10-15/3867 "2023-10-15T18:58:09Z")
The Scanalyst site will be in either read-only maintenance mode or down (inaccessible) for various periods of time on 2023-10-15 between 19:00 UTC and no later than 00:00 UTC on 2023-10-16. This downtime is required for… --- ## [Development Log 2023-09-27](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-09-27/3799)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [27 September 2023 23:38 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-09-27/3799 "2023-09-27T23:38:07Z")
2023 September 27 Made a mirror backup to the Fourmilab\_Mirror external USB drive. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-09-27 ami-00dfeaa6905e18327 / snap-0bcc2cd67d245512b /server … --- ## [Development Log 2023-09-16](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-09-16/3752)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 September 2023 21:17 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-09-16/3752 "2023-09-16T21:17:54Z")
2023 September 16 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-09-16 ami-0abbdc019aed923b4 / snap-063a73568642f7234 /server snap-02a20e8959480a284 The system… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-08-10](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-08-10/3586)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [10 August 2023 16:42 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-08-10/3586 "2023-08-10T16:42:21Z")
2023 August 10 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-08-10 ami-022120c0a785ceb67 / snap-0c327639f2208409d /server snap-049e43b1c5f17f82a The system ha… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-07-29](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-07-29/3531)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [29 July 2023 14:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-07-29/3531 "2023-07-29T14:59:47Z")
2023 July 29 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-07-29 ami-0c6de154b3fa588a4 / snap-0c4da5c5abd09ff05 /server snap-0b50188a73e897a6d The system had … --- ## [Development Log: 2023-07-12](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-07-12/3439)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [12 July 2023 23:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-07-12/3439 "2023-07-12T23:02:01Z")
2023 July 12 This update installs Discourse version 3.1.0.beta6, which includes several new features described in the release documentation. One of the main features is “image grids”: if you surround a series of images… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-06-14](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-06-14/3313)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [14 June 2023 20:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-06-14/3313 "2023-06-14T20:41:01Z")
2023 June 14 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-06-14 ami-0ac5097390833bd56 / snap-06510cb44818ae525 /server snap-0adfafe587d78673d The system had … --- ## [Development Log: 2023-05-04](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-05-04/3127)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [5 May 2023 23:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-05-04/3127 "2023-05-05T23:12:59Z")
2023 May 4 Installed the Jitsi conference Theme Component according to the instructions in: https://meta.discourse.org/t/jitsi-video-conference/146046 using the implementation (official Discourse component) in: … --- ## [Development Log: 2023-04-18](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-04-18/3064)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [18 April 2023 21:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-04-18/3064 "2023-04-18T21:13:13Z")
2023 April 18 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-04-18 ami-0a329322db25d00a4 / snap-0507b136c61445d66 /server snap-0901fe0bd4ec72b2b The system had… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-03-17](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-03-17/2903)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 March 2023 21:18 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-03-17/2903 "2023-03-17T21:18:30Z")
2023 March 17 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-03-17 ami-09ea87968630d8b41 / snap-0bb8ac1b46b8805a5 /server snap-036cc92464c885fd0 The system had… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-03-03](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-03-03/2835)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [4 March 2023 13:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-03-03/2835 "2023-03-04T13:41:10Z")
2023 February 3 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-03-03 ami-00b01cfd8b1c32ef7 / snap-069a21550c62aa652 /server snap-0b25ff7df3942435b Installed th… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-01-26](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-26/2663)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [26 January 2023 17:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-26/2663 "2023-01-26T17:21:56Z")
2023 January 26 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2023-01-26 ami-0a961e0164b0a48cc / snap-0e0cc57fc452a2525 /server snap-0aafa313d255911dd The system h… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-01-13](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-13/2598)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [13 January 2023 09:04 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-13/2598 "2023-01-13T09:04:56Z")
2023 January 13 Seven days after the 3.0.0.beta16 security "hot fix" update, Discourse has dropped the 3.1.0.beta1 version bump and feature release. This does not have a long list of features. For details, see the rel… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-01-05](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-05/2560)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [5 January 2023 14:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-05/2560 "2023-01-05T14:32:11Z")
2023 January 5 Is Discourse beginning to suffer from WordPress envy and deciding they aren't jerking their administrators' chains sufficiently frequently? Less than 24 hours after releasing version 3.0.0.beta15, along c… --- ## [Development Log: 2023-01-04](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-04/2558)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [4 January 2023 21:24 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2023-01-04/2558 "2023-01-04T21:24:37Z")
2023 January 4 This is a major feature update, the first to be built off the Discourse 3.0.0 source stream. Here are the complete release notes. This version integrates the official Discourse Chat plug-in, previously … --- ## [Development Log: 2022-11-30](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-30/2372)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [30 November 2022 22:49 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-30/2372 "2022-11-30T22:49:03Z")
2022 November 30 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2022-11-30 ami-0f14c9c685e0f742b / snap-00f00d9ad3487c01e /server snap-04c09d9a2e8ff74ca The system … --- ## [Development Log: 2022-11-15](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-15/2303)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 November 2022 00:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-15/2303 "2022-11-16T00:09:49Z")
2022 November 15 Made a mirror backup to Juno. Made a backup AMI: Scanalyst Backup 2022-11-15 ami-014818d3be9bdfe1a / snap-0b555e3cb1330ad44 /server snap-0b225a05f2e850aa9 The system … --- ## [Development Log: 2022-11-09](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-09/2272)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [9 November 2022 14:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/development-log-2022-11-09/2272 "2022-11-09T14:41:48Z")
2022 November 9 Discourse has confirmed that current Discourse Docker images, as used by SCANALYST, are not vulnerable to the OpenSSL vulnerabilities recently discovered and widely reported. https://meta.discourse.o… [Next page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/c/administration/10.md?page=1)