Re: [tsc-devel] Self-hosting the project

Lauri Ojansivu | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 10:17:52 UTC

>> I presume Alexandria has some email server running?
>
> It hosts these mailinglists, so yes it has :-). It runs postfix as the
> MTA, and as it also runs dovecot as an MDA, it is possible to have real
> email accounts @secretchronicles.de with IMAP access and Sieve
> filtering. Currently nobody uses that facility, though; if that doesn’t
> change, we ought to remove the dovecot daemon. Mailing lists are managed
> by mlmmj + MHonArc in conjunction with postfix.

Postfix and Dovecot could be used for Gogs, when I'll figure out how
it works. Currently I'm translating Gogs to Finnish, after that I'll
look at importing issues and pull requests to Gogs.

>> Then I'm thinking of adding SSL to website, when
>> https://letsencrypt.org comes available later this year.
>
> SSL is a good idea, but we’ll at least need a wildcard cert
> *.secretchronicles.de due to the many subdomains we have. I heard of
> letsencrypt before, but I was under the impression it wants to
> automatically rewrite your apache config, which I think is not a good
> idea (we have a complex reverse proxy setup for the forum for
> example). If one can just use it as a CA, then it’s fine.

I presume letsencrypt provides free wildcard certs. Rewriting Apache
config would not be problem, it's only that automatic renewal of SSL
certs works, it does not change other settings. We can work with
letsencrypt project if there is any issues in using it.

BR,
xet7