- Real Name: Dave Humphrey
- Who Am I: Original founder and admin of the UESP since its creation in 1995 (and the Daggerfall text FAQ before that)
- Where Am I: Currently living and working in the Toronto, Canada area
- What I Do: Full time employee for the UESP
- Current Interests: Besides the usual ES stuff I've been lately on a quest to build the world's toughest USB drive (www.viud.net). The VIUD Store is now open!
- Age: Born in 1973 I am 50 at this edit
- What I'm Playing: ESO...contact me as @Reorx in the UESP guild
- Social Media
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- FaceBook -- dave.humphrey.3152
- Twitter -- Dave_EGH
- Skype -- humphrey.dave
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Site ToDo ListEdit
See my ever growing todo list on Trello. Also see the UESPWiki:Task List page for general tasks which can be done by any editor.
Ideas/NotesEdit
Just a place for me to jot down some general ideas:
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- Mod Ideas
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- Faction with semi-random quests (ala Daggerfall), many medium-large pre-randomly generated dungeons
- In-game strategy (ala Civilization). Build 'cities' within the game, gather resources to create buildings, gain prestige to get involved with the province politics (quest line).
- Luggage (ala Pratchett's Disc World). A large trunk follows you around with a mind, and set of sharp teeth, of its own.
Handy MediaWiki QueriesEdit
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- Count of Daily Edits
SELECT COUNT( * ) , LEFT( rev_timestamp, 8 ) AS revdate FROM `revision` GROUP BY revdate
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- Add a WHERE rev_minor_edit=0 to not count minor edits.
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- Count of Daily Edits from a Given Date by User
SELECT COUNT(*) as cnt, rev_user, rev_user_text, LEFT(rev_timestamp, 8) as revdate FROM revision WHERE rev_timestamp > "20121101" GROUP BY rev_user ORDER by cnt;
Useful CommandsEdit
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- List Processes Using Port 80
fuser 80/tcp
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- Memory Usage
free -m top
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- Disk Usage
df du
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- Group Apache Log Errors
egrep "\[.*\] \[error\] \[client .*\]" error_log | gawk -F ']' '{print $4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort > errors.txt
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- Sorting the Apache Error Log
awk -vFS=']' '/\[.*\] \[error\] \[client .*\]/ { a[$4]++; } END { for (i in a) print a[i], i; }' < error_log | sort -n > errors.txt
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- Extract Database from Full Dump File
sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `dbname`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' alldbs.sql > dbname.sql
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- Extract Pages from Squid Log and Purge
awk '{print $7}' access.log > allpages.txt grep "/wiki/" allpages.txt > mainpages.txt grep "www.uesp.net" mainpages.txt > wwwpages.txt egrep "m.uesp.net|mobile.uesp.net" mainpages.txt > mobilepages.txt sort wwwpages.txt > wwwpagesort.txt uniq wwwpagesort.txt > wwwpagesuniq.txt php purgeList.php --purge < wwwpagesuniq.txt
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- Use yum EPEL Repo
yum install epel-release
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- ElasticSearch
curl localhost:9201 curl localhost:9205/_cluster/health?pretty curl localhost:9205/_aliases?pretty curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v' curl localhost:9205/_stats?pretty curl -X DELETE "localhost:9200/my-index-000001?pretty" curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/my-data-stream/_alias/my-alias?pretty" curl -X DELETE "localhost:9200/my-data-stream/_alias/my-alias?pretty" curl -X POST "localhost:9200/_reindex?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' { "source": { "index": "twitter" }, "dest": { "index": "new_twitter" } }'
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- Updating Firewall with IP Change:
Login with ssh (admin@10.12.222.11) enable 15 configure terminal http #.#.#.# 255.255.255.255 outside
Custom ScriptsEdit
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- Counts all connections per IP address and displays sorted list. Add an optional connection type parameter (TIME_WAIT, ESTABLISHED, LISTEN, etc...) to only list connections in that state.
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- Helper script for banning/unbanning IP addresses using iptables at the server level.
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Setting up Eclipse for Remote DevelopmentEdit
Eclipse can be setup for remote development of PHP (and anything else) directly from the UESP servers:
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- Download the base version of Eclipse
- Install/extract to a desired directory and run
- Go to Help--Install New Software
- Select All Sites from the drop down list
- Find and select the following add-ons:
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- PHP Development Tools (PDT) SDK Feature
- JavaScript Development Tools
- Eclipse Web Developer Tools
- Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime
- Install the add-ons and restart Eclipse
- Open a Remote System Explorer perspective (or from within Window--Show View--Other)
- Define a new connection using a SSH session to content3.uesp.net (you need to have a shell login on content3)
MediaWiki Distribution APIEdit
The ExtensionDistributor API can get you download URLs, e.g. this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&list=extdistbranches&formatversion=2&edbexts=WikiEditor returns this sort of thing: "REL1_39": "https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/WikiEditor-REL1_39-76d9ffd.tar.gz", "REL1_40": "https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/WikiEditor-REL1_40-d330183.tar.gz", "master": "https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/WikiEditor-master-17163cd.tar.gz",
LinksEdit
Links I always seem to need but never remember...
Internal Site Links
General Things
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- Block With IPTables
- DNS Stuff
- Stats on Various Mediawikis
- Quantcast-UESP
- PHP Performance Talk and PHP Performance Talk Slides
- MaatKit MySQL Tools
- Squid Manual
- Squid Accelerator Mode
- MediaWiki Squid Caching
- Server Admin Checklist
- Squid: The Definitive Guide
- Listing Fragmented MySQL Tables
- Remove Blocked IP from DenyHosts
- Fedora EPEL - Extra package list for CentOS/Fedora.
- Block Brute Force Attacks with IPTables
- CentOS IP Tables Documentation - Note config file at /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
- CentOS Sudo
- Google Legal Forms
Wiki Related
Server Architecture:
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