Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:30:47 -0500

Trying again: External access to the /epics path on the secure server
has now been enabled, and my cell-phone browser proved that it now
works. Thanks to Torsten and Heinz for persisting in their test reports.

- Andrew

On 06/29/2016 11:16 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> So by complete coincidence there happened to be updates/upgrades being
> applied to the VMs that implement the APS web-servers last night, and of
> course the most critical one (the file-server) failed, resulting in the
> complete failure of the APS website. That has now been fixed, so
> hopefully all of you who reported problems should now be able to access
> the site again and check out the secure download pages.
> 
> My apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks to everyone who reported
> seeing problems.
> 
> - Andrew
> 
> On 06/28/2016 06:19 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>> I have just completed copying all the EPICS download files over to our
>> secure web-server. The URLs for the new location are identical to the
>> original but with a scheme of https: instead of http:. I have searched
>> through the website and adjusted all the links I could find, but
>> initially nobody should notice if I missed any because all the files are
>> still available at both locations.
>>
>> Eventually there will be a server redirect to the new location and the
>> files will be removed from the insecure server. Other parts of the site
>> may also move in the future, but currently only /epics/download URLs
>> will work from the secure server. Please let me know if you see any
>> strange behaviour or find any links that don't work properly.
>>
>> - Andrew
> 

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