Nginx has been banished!

[mark]

Hey all,

Sorry for the 'Welcome to nginx!' issues we've been seeing for a bit now. It was a server configuration issue that hit us when a webserver rebooted.

Basically when the machine rebooted, nginx (software that can act as a web server) started up and then when Apache (the software Dreamwidth code uses for a web server) tried to start, it failed because nginx had already started and registered on the ports (the way web server software gets your requests).

Again, sorry for the site issues. Everything should be back to happy-times now, so let us know if you see any issues!

Comments

[primwood]

Thanks, Mark! Does Dreamwidth have the capability of having Twitter tweets posted into a person's journal? I would like to use DW as my permanent home, but the last time I checked, it didn't have that capacity. If DW doesn't now, are there any plans for it to happen in the near future?

[azurelunatic]

(Not Mark)

Dreamwidth doesn't currently have the ability to directly import tweets; some people have various things on their own servers to make it work for them.

The most recent user discussion about the feature was from 2011: http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/528546.html

It seemed back in 2012 that it would be against the rules for Dreamwidth to archive tweets on users' behalf, and that's when the suggestion got rejected.

I don't think there's been any recent discussion on making it possible; I will defer to mark on that.

Thoughts upon having looked at the current rules

[azurelunatic]

Would it fall afoul of I.G.2.d.iii? https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/policy#id9
II.B looks ... interesting ... as well. https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/policy#id13
II.C on the profile is more than Dreamwidth does for other connected services, but perhaps it could be in each journal entry: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/policy#id14

https://about.twitter.com/en-gb/company/display-requirements seems relevant, and I'm not sure that Dreamwidth wants to enable retweet-from-Dreamwidth. I also don't know whether Dreamwidth wants to start having a conversation with Twitter about implementation.