Re: Staging instance server

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Le jeudi 05 septembre 2019 à 08:09 -0400, Paul Frields a écrit :
> Off the top of my head...
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:43 AM Michael Scherer <mscherer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > so as I said in the meeting earlier toda^w yesterday, we (or rather
> > Jason) did copy the prod instance to a staging instance on
> > https://fedoramagstg.wpengine.com/
> > 
> > However, it seems we can't add a vhost for that instance, which is
> > less
> > than ideal, as I need now to change the name everywhere.
> > 
> > So, while doing so, I also had a few questions:
> > 
> > - as staging tend to be forgotten, would it be ok to password
> > protect
> > the website so it can be safely protected from worm until we need
> > it ?
> > 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> > If so, where should it be stored, the goal being just to avoid
> > automated scanning (so I was think some easy passwords in the doc,
> > since the goal is just to prevent potential automated attacks) ?
> > 
> 
> Not sure what you mean here -- you mean put the passwords in a doc
> somewhere?

Yup, I know that best practice is to encrypt etc, but there is a
administrative cost in doing so if there is no infra to store such
passwords safely, so I would just propose to add that in the public
documentation, and say "the staging instance is protected from
automated scanner with "foo"/"password"". 

That's slightly less worst than having it directly exposed, but I am
not sure there is anything interesting in the first place. The posts
are public, there will be no web exposure (or any win in SEO or malware
distribution) after a compromise (due to password protection). 

Worst case in case of compromise is that someone would just get a few
emails, and I am not sure they can't be already harvested somewhere
else in FAS anyway. 



> - how up to date do we want it to be regarding posts, etc ?
> > (I think we can't do a regular automated sync easily, so if that's
> > needed, I will have to find some way to automate that)
> > 
> 
> Doesn't need to be sync'd all the time. If the current content is
> needed we
> can always ask.
> 
> 
> > - do we want to have it plugged to the prod instance of FAS or the
> > staging one ?
> > (for now, that's the staging one)
> 
> 
> Staging seems right to me.

Ok, we need to keep that in mind if we sync again, this will be
erased/forgotten.

I will take care of that next week. 
-- 
Michael Scherer / He/Il/Er/Él
Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure



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