Latest revision as of 01:06, 21 September 2025

The OSGeo Download Server runs in a container of osgeo7 host, see Download Container

Houses the following sites:

 - https://upload.osgeo.org
 - https://bottle.download.osgeo.org

The https://download.osgeo.org site goes thru osgeo8 and osgeo9, but data is pulled from this container

It is also the official hop container for osgeo7. Accessible via ssh hop.osgeo7.osgeo.org
~~It has webdav with single local htaccess account geotools for geotools bot use.~~

In order to be able to log in or sftp

You must be a member of the OSGeo shell group which can be granted from another person in shell group - Shell
Once you are in shell group, go to https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/edit and put in your public key.

You should then be able to log into download (and all other hop servers on the other hosts) with your private key.

You can put in a ticket to request such access.

Configuration

The download container on osgeo7, ssh via upload.osgeo.org (requires SSH key) Refer to SAC_Service_Status Download Container

download.osgeo.org should not be used as it is a round robin that floats between osgeo7, osgeo8, and osgeo9 to balance load.
The upload.osgeo.org DNS name only points to the osgeo7 download container
The downloadable tree is found in /osgeo/download on the server. (mirrored at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo)
The virtual host declaration is found in /etc/nginx/sites-available
Logs are in /var/log/nginx

bottle.download.osgeo.org (Mac Bottles) is also hosted on this server and in folder /osgeo/bottle mirrored at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/bottle

Management

It is intended that each interested project should have a directory under /osgeo/download with appropriate permissions so a project member can manage the subdirectories and files. Scp, or sftp can be used to bring files onto the server. Someone from each project will need to add their SSH Public Key(s) into the LDAP OSGeo Userid, for ssh/scp access. Any administrator can create new project directories, and chown them to a project representative.

End Users

End users should be referred to downloads similarly to:

https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz

Directory indexing is left on so requesting a directory will give a file list.

Rsync

The /osgeo/download area is exported for anonymous rsync read access as a module named "download". The following can be used to pull a local copy of the gdal data tree for instance:

rsync -av upload.osgeo.org::download/gdal/data .

This is controlled by the rsync configuration file at /etc/rsyncd.conf. It is possible that rsyncd will not automatically restart on reboot in which case "rsyncd --daemon" as root may be necessary to start it.

Webdav

Some projects using Maven as their build tool require webdav in order to work. There is a standalone webdav in nginx setup for geoserver/geotools use using a htpasswd file in /etc/nginx/auth/geotools

Backup

Nightly backups of the /osgeo/download tree are managed using rsync to /mirror/rsync/download.osgeo.org on backup.osgeo.org by root's crontab. /home/other_backups/download directory backup.osgeo.org by a nightly cronjob, and this mirror is available at the url download2.osgeo.org and http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/download/ if needed (NOTE: that rsync does not delete file on backup.osgeo.org, if they were removed from download.osgeo.org).

There is a weekly backup of the whole download container backed up as stopped container on osgeo4 and called download-backup.

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-There is a need for a "download server" for OSGeo that provides for bulk downloads of software.
+The OSGeo Download Server runs in a container of [[osgeo7]] host, see [[Download Container]]
-We are hesitant to handle this on our primary server hosted by Peer1 because of the risk of exceeding our bandwidth allotment and getting charged a lot extra.  For that reason the download server is being hosted on a telascience blade.  Telascience has extensive bandwidth and is not charging OSGeo for it.
-= Configuration =
+Houses the following sites:
-For now the 198.202.74.218 blade is being used as a download server.
+  - https://upload.osgeo.org
+  - https://bottle.download.osgeo.org
-* It is known as "download.osgeo.org", and is configured to respond to that.
+The https://download.osgeo.org site goes thru [[osgeo8]] and [[osgeo9]], but data is pulled from this container
-* It is also known as "ftp.remotesensing.org", for historical reasons (actually this is still running on .219).
-* The downloadable tree is found in /osgeo/download on the server.
-* /osgeo/download is also cross mounted on the .219 server which is where a variety of project scripts run for generating nightly tar files, and such.
-* The virtual host declaration is found in /etc/httpd/conf.d/sites/download.osgeo.org.conf.
-* Logs are in /etc/httpd/logs/download_access_log and /etc/httpd/logs/download_error_log.
-= Access Log Viewer (awstats) =
+* It is also the official hop container for osgeo7.  Accessible via ssh hop.osgeo7.osgeo.org
+*  <del>It has webdav with single local htaccess account geotools for geotools bot use.</del>
-To maintain/view the Apache access logs of download server, [http://awstats.sf.net/ awstats] has been installed on the server.
+In order to be able to log in or sftp
-Logs can be seen by visiting [http://download.osgeo.org/logs/ http://download.osgeo.org/logs/] The details of awstats installation are
-* awstats version 6.6-1 installed using rpm
+* You must be a member of the OSGeo shell group which can be granted from another person in shell group - [https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/shell Shell]
-* application root dir /usr/local/awstats/
+* Once you are in shell group, go to https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/edit and put in your public key.
-* location of cgi executable /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
-* site configuration file /etc/awstats/awstats.www.download.osgeo.org.conf (create such file for any other host to be added in future)
-* Data dir (dir where stats data is stored) /osgeo/download/logs
-* Updation is done daily 1am (server time) using a cronjob by executing /osgeo/scripts/update_logs.sh (to add more sites in future, add entry to this script)
-= Management =
+You should then be able to log into download (and all other hop servers on the other hosts) with your private key.
-It is intended that each interested project should have a directory under /osgeo/download with appropriate permissions so a project member can manage the subdirectories and files.  Scp, or sftp can be used to bring files onto the server.  Someone from each project will need their LDAP OSGeo Userid [https://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/auth/ldap_shell.py shell enabled], for ssh/scp access.
+You can put in a [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/newticket ticket] to request such access.
-Any administrator can create new project directories, and chown them to a project representative.
+= Configuration =
-Contact Frank Warmerdam for overall configuration questions or about problems.
+The download container on osgeo7, ssh via upload.osgeo.org (requires SSH key) Refer to [[SAC_Service_Status#Download|SAC_Service_Status Download Container]]
-= End Users =
+* download.osgeo.org should not be used as it is a round robin that floats between osgeo7, osgeo8, and osgeo9 to balance load.
+* The upload.osgeo.org DNS name only points to the osgeo7 download container
+* The downloadable tree is found in /osgeo/download on the server. (mirrored at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo)
+* The virtual host declaration is found in  /etc/nginx/sites-available
+* Logs are in /var/log/nginx
-End users should be referred to downloads similarly to:
+* bottle.download.osgeo.org (Mac Bottles) is also hosted on this server and in folder /osgeo/bottle mirrored at  https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/bottle
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz
+= Management =
-Directory indexing is left on so requesting a directory will give a file list.
+It is intended that each interested project should have a directory under /osgeo/download with appropriate permissions so a project member can manage the subdirectories and files.  Scp, or sftp can be used to bring files onto the server.  Someone from each project will need to add their SSH Public Key(s) into the [https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/edit LDAP OSGeo Userid], for ssh/scp access.
+Any administrator can create new project directories, and chown them to a project representative.
-= FTP Service =
+= End Users =
-There is FTP service configured on the '''download.osgeo.org''' blade. The FTP access is served by [http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ vsftpd] - secure and fastest FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
+End users should be referred to downloads similarly to:
-The vsftpd daemon configuration includes as minimal set of options turned on as possible:
+ https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz
-* anonymous '''only''' access
+Directory indexing is left on so requesting a directory will give a file list.
-* root directory: /osgeo/download
-* '''no''' access for local users
-* '''no''' write, mkdir or upload privileges
-* session owned by '''non-privileged''' user (there has been created a dedicated local user)
-* custom banner message: ''Welcome to OSGeo Foundation FTP service.''
-* maximum number of connected clients: '''50'''
-* maximum number of connections per IP address: '''2'''
-* user and group identifiers in are hidden from directories listings, and replaced with '''ftp'''
-== Controlling FTP Service ==
+= Rsync =
-In order to control the ''vsftpd'' server, you need to:
+The /osgeo/download area is exported for anonymous rsync read access as a module named "download".  The following can be used to pull a local copy of the gdal data tree for instance:
-* belong to sudoers
-* login in to the download.osgeo.org host using SSH client.
-Here you can see how to issue two basic commands:
+ rsync -av upload.osgeo.org::download/gdal/data .
-* Start
+This is controlled by the rsync configuration file at /etc/rsyncd.conf.  It is possible that rsyncd will not automatically restart on reboot in which case "rsyncd --daemon" as root may be necessary to start it.
- $ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
+= Webdav =
-* Stop
+Some projects using Maven as their build tool require webdav in order to work. There is a standalone webdav in nginx setup
+for geoserver/geotools use using a htpasswd file in /etc/nginx/auth/geotools
- $ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop
+= Backup =
-* Restart
- $ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
-= Rsync =
+Nightly backups of the /osgeo/download tree are managed using rsync to /mirror/rsync/download.osgeo.org on backup.osgeo.org by root's crontab.
+/home/other_backups/download directory backup.osgeo.org by a nightly cronjob, and this mirror is available at the url download2.osgeo.org and http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/download/ if needed
-The /osgeo/download area is exported for anonymous rsync read access as a module named "download".  The following can be used to pull a local copy of the gdal data tree for instance:
+(NOTE: that rsync does not delete file on backup.osgeo.org, if they were removed from download.osgeo.org).
- rsync -av download.osgeo.org::download/gdal/data .
-This is controlled by the rsync configuration file at /etc/rsyncd.conf.  /etc/xinetd.d/rsync was also updated to set set disable=yes to disable=no in the hopes the daemon will restart when the blade is restarted (not tested).
-= Backup =
-Nightly backups of the /osgeo/download tree are managed using rsync to the /home/other_backups/download directory on the secondary osgeo server (test.osgeo.net).  This is done by a cron job running as user back on osgeo2 (see /home/other_backups for details).
+There is a weekly backup of the whole download container backed up as stopped container on osgeo4 and called download-backup.
 [[Category:Infrastructure]]
+[[Category:Services]]

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