Site Updates and Feature Requests
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This topic is for details of site updates such as new features, and also nerdy stuff such as software or server updates.
For more general news of new content added to the site, see the “What’s New?” section on the Huddersfield Exposed home page and also the news blog.
If there’s a new feature that you’d like to see added to the site or perhaps you don’t think that something is working properly, feel free to leave a reply!
Site Specs
main web server:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running on Linode 2GB (London)
- Linode Object Storage (~48GB)
- Nginx 1.18.x
- Apache 2.4.x with ModSecurity & mod_perl
- PHP 7.4.x (FPM)
- MediaWiki 1.34.x with CirrusSearch
- WordPress
- Omeka
database server:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running on Linode 2GB (London)
- MariaDB 10.3.x
- ElasticSearch
major config changes:
- 02/05/2020: moved ElasticSearch from the web server onto the database server (not ideal, as ES is a memory hog but needed to free up memory on the web server to cope with the huge increase in traffic since lockdown)
- 29/05/2020: changed the MediaWiki job queue to a continuous service
- 30/07/2020: moved ElasticSearch back onto the main web server as traffic levels have dropped slightly from the peak around late May 2020
- 15/08/2020: migrated database to new Ubuntu 20.04 server running MariaDB
- 18/08/2020: upgraded database server hardware and moved ElasticSearch onto it
future plans:
- rewrite MW skin to resolve current JS loading issues (perhaps as part of migrating to MW 1.35?)
Synonym searching is now enabled on Huddersfield Exposed. This is primarily being used to provide search across common variant spellings, such as:
- Hellawell / Helliwell / Hellwell
- Hinchliffe / Hinchcliff / Hinchcliffe / Hinchliff
- Lingards / Lingarths
- Linthwaite / Linfit
- Slaithwaite / Slawit
The initial emphasis is on adding synonyms to improve searching across the Holmfirth Flood Project content where spellings of names and places varies from one newspaper report to the next.
For example, a search for linfit hall will also match linthwaite hall…
Using quotation marks overrides the synonym searching, allowing you to focus on a specific spelling…
The current list of synonyms can be viewed here: https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/HuddersfieldExposed:Synonyms
If there are any synonyms you’d like adding, please let me know.
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