arcanis.me/_posts/2014-03-06-site-changes.md

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I decided to change my site. You may find short list of changes below.

The list of changes:

• I rented a arcanis.me domain. Now I have a normal address, as well as all normal people have it. Small description of how to do it. Firstly, you should rent domain and activate DNS editing (it is called DNS-master for Ru-center). I pay about $30 in year. Then you should create CNAME file in your repository; this file has line with your domain name. And finally you should create two DNS records for your domain:

  @    A   192.30.252.153
  @    A   192.30.252.154
  # redirection from www.*
  www CNAME   @
  

  (Symbol @ means you root domain.) And next wait for two hours. You may find out the result as follows:

  $ dig domain.name +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
  ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> domain.name +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;domain.name.                  IN      A
  domain.name.           912     IN      A       192.30.252.153
  domain.name.           912     IN      A       192.30.252.154
  ...
  

• Also I've created my own repo, which will contain some AUR packages that I'm using. Support of both architectures is planned.

• Since the repo requires ftp protocol, I've changed samba shared folders to ftp. The problem of access has been resolved by using mount options:

  # only read rights
  /home/arcanis/music                         /srv/ftp/music  ext4    defaults,bind,ro   0 0
  /home/arcanis/arch/repo                     /srv/ftp/repo   ext4    defaults,bind,ro   0 0
  # read and write rights (the file has size 2 Gb)
  /home/arcanis/share.fs                      /srv/ftp/share  ext4    defaults,rw   0 0
  

  Login on special user and option anon_world_readable_only=YES are used for prevent access to the music directory. Also here is my /etc/vsftpd.conf configuration file:

  anonymous_enable=YES
  anon_root=/srv/ftp
  local_enable=YES
  write_enable=YES
  local_umask=022
  anon_upload_enable=YES
  anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
  anon_other_write_enable=YES
  anon_world_readable_only=YES
  dirmessage_enable=YES
  xferlog_enable=YES
  connect_from_port_20=YES
  nopriv_user=music
  ascii_upload_enable=YES
  ftpd_banner=Welcome to arcanis
  chroot_local_user=YES
  local_root=/srv/ftp/music
  listen=YES
  

  Now let's add redirection from repo.arcanis.me to the needed IP address. To do this, add the following entry in DNS:

  repo   A   89.249.170.38
  

• Also there are plans to buy a server for compiling packages and hosting the repository, filesharing and backups.