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Post by pjh on Jul 20, 2024 10:23:55 GMT
> Any suggested hosting services for Mercurial?
Another vote for codebasehq. I opened an account after the trial period expired. Thanks to Carl for the initial suggestion.
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Post by ASh on Jul 20, 2024 21:26:48 GMT
Hi fellow disaster recoverers.
Has anybody successfully registered a newly created SSH key on XP-DEV?
Previously I used HTTPS only, and now it appears that HTTPS is not functional with XP-DEV, but SSH still works. So, I created SSH key pair (on LINUX UBUNTU not on Windows - to make things more predictable). Then registered public key on XP-DEV (using still functional HTTP protocol). And still cannot access my repositories on XP-DEV.
Just to make sure I am doing it right - did all the same steps (on the same UBUNTU), with another service provider (to whom I am migrating now). SSH works OK
Any experience with recent SSH access to XP-DEV?
And by the way, service provider, to whom I am migrating now: repositoryhosting.com Yes, it has its disadvantages, but so much less expensive than CODEBASEHQ ...
Regards, ASh
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Post by ASh on Jul 21, 2024 1:02:27 GMT
Some useful tricks for those unlucky (like me) who did not know about XP-DEV problems until July 17 when HTTPS stopped working. It appears that both GIT and Mercurial can bypass HTTPS (SSL) certificate verification if instructed to do so 1) For GIT git config --global http.sslVerify "false" allows GIT to ignore certificate expiration. After that you can use "git clone --mirror" command to rescue your GIT repository from XP-DEV via HTTPS address. Do not forget to re-enable certificates validation by git config --global http.sslVerify "true" 2) For Mercurial - include "--insecure" option in hg command line, like in the following: hg clone –insecure hg clone --insecure UserName:Password@subdomain.xp-dev.com/hg/myreponame ./myreponame 3) Can't tell about SVN. Just do not know.
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Post by Ulf on Jul 21, 2024 12:16:28 GMT
I hadn't known about this issue until the certificate expired. I was able to get Firefox to access the site by fiddling with the SiteSecurityServiceState file as described in security.stackexchange.com/questions/102279/can-hsts-be-disabled-in-firefox (although it's a binary file now). Then I could downloads dumps of the SVN repos, and the source of all wiki pages (only individually). For the tickets I enabled the trac-hacks.org/wiki/ExcelDownloadPlugin plugin, which allows to download tickets in bulk, including all comments. I'm not sure if that's useful for setting up elsewhere, but it's a start. Has anyone found a similar Trac/SVN service? I found www.projecthut.com and repositoryhosting.com, but both are not showing signs of life online, and I don't want to have to go through the same situation as with xp-dev.com...
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Post by ASh on Jul 21, 2024 17:43:38 GMT
I am currently migrating to repositoryhosting.com Yes, it also looks like "one man" business, with no new features introduced for years. But it is functioning well, has remarkable network performance (for USA region). In general, it is in better shape than other existing "ready-to-use" services for legacy versioning systems like SVN and Mercurial. This time I am taking all possible precautions: automatic periodic synchronization of REPOSITORYHOSTING with my local NAS, automatic daily backup of the NAS, automatic mirror of the NAS to another NAS in a different location ...
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Post by Ulf on Jul 23, 2024 7:09:20 GMT
Other options seem to be www.svnrepository.com/ (but their support forums at hostingplayground.com are unreachable - not a good sign), and www.repositery.com/ (which is part of Softaculous, a larger company).
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Post by Ulf on Jul 23, 2024 9:12:05 GMT
Repositery makes it ridiculously complicated to set up accounts, log in, reset passwords, and related activities. But even more ominous, there isn't a single topic discussing it on their support forums (at www.softaculous.com/board/), and the last blog/news entry is from 2019. That's 4 companies, and none seem more viable than xp-dev.com at this point.
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Post by Paul T on Jul 23, 2024 9:44:13 GMT
How are people able to do SVN Dumps from the system at the moment? Everything we try we just get 504 Gateway Time-out errors from nginx via web, or Tortoise SVN reports the same. Is there anything specific we should try as we haven't been able to access any of our repos since mid May and its becoming critical ......
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Post by Wayne (devZing) on Jul 23, 2024 18:47:17 GMT
devZing.com offers Subversion, Trac and Mercurial hosting. If you can get a backup we can migrate it.
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Post by jltransus on Jul 23, 2024 23:59:45 GMT
We went with Assembla. Spendy, but when I examine the financial results of this tragedy, I am OK with it. It is the real deal. It works for Panasonic and EBay so should work for us.
Thank you for all the great years Roopinder.
I would have loved to have gotten our source out of the xp-dev repos but even with the S3 backups none are recoverable for us. The backups are all incremental, there was never a base backed up to apply the incremental backups to.
It is all very unfortunate.
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Post by mmueller on Jul 24, 2024 16:40:52 GMT
Unfortunately, we are another customer that was completely unaware of Roopinder's passing and the tragic loss to his family until the xp-dev site certificate expired on July 17th. At this point in time we can't even access the xp-dev site due to the expired certificate. Any suggestions from the community on how to proceed to access our Git repositories would be appreciated.
To Roopinder's family, I am so sorry to belatedly hear about your loss and the struggles you have had trying to support xp-dev users. If it's possible to update the site certificate, it may resolve some of the issues that are being seen by the most recent wave of users affected; however, this assumes that you have been able to resolve at least some of the associated legal issues to allow you to have access. I appreciate the effort you have put in and, again, I am so sorry to hear about your loss.
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Post by Ulf on Jul 25, 2024 15:05:30 GMT
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Post by ASh on Jul 25, 2024 23:40:23 GMT
To mmueller:
1) For GIT there is a method to ignore certificate expiration
git config --global http.sslVerify "false"
allows GIT to ignore certificate expiration. After that you can use "git clone --mirror" command to rescue your GIT repository from XP-DEV via HTTPS address.
Do not forget to re-enable certificates validation (when all is done) by
git config --global http.sslVerify "true"
2) Chrome Web browser can ignore expired certificate if you go deep enough into its warning dialogue/advanced options. In the end, Chrome suggests either to "return back to safety", or to go ahead "on your own risk" to access expired Web site (XP-DEV in this case)
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Post by Ash on Jul 25, 2024 23:47:03 GMT
To Wayne (devZing): I do not see Mercurial hosting you mentioned on devzing.com/Where is it described? Thank you, ASh
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Post by shess on Jul 26, 2024 1:30:57 GMT
Hi all,
Like Paul T above, I can ignore the certificate warning and get to the website. However, when I click on any repository, I get an eventual 504 Gateway Time-out.
Has anyone successfully been able to see the repository this week, either from the web or via SVN?
Thanks!
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