Yawn!

2 AM and the UnifiedBlue relaunch is officially complete. The unified wiki originally at the main domain has now been split into subdomains between secure and public content and the wiki software has been changed to Dokuwiki. The wiki-blog entries have now been deprecated and have been manually been moved to Imboogled. The mailserver has been officially launched, and work will shortly begin to move content and subscriptions. Finally the main domain now hosts a gateway page linking to the two wikis, the mail server and the server subdomains.... Phew!

The decision was taken to move from Mediawiki not because it was not proficient enough, but simply that it was not fit for purpose. It was almost too powerful for the limited use the UB requires, and also lacked innate security features that the secure wiki required. As mentioned previously, an OpenID token authentication method was active for the secure wiki previously, however it's integration to Mediawiki was limited, and showed signs of possible security flaws. The new site features secure basic https authentication provided by Apache as a first line and then a subsequent wiki user/pass combination to access content.



The deprecation of wiki-blogs was simple; Mediawiki or Dokuwiki for that matter, have no business hosting blog entries and are not built as such. It was fitting that they should move to the Imboogled blog.

It was an epic move, but one that will help shape the future of UnifiedBlue.