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IPT mailing list submissions
by Denis Beina 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Denis Beina, Ph.D. ************************ Division des Sciences Com.Nat. UNESCO BP:1583, Bangui, Rép. Centrafricaine Tél. +23675048024

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IPT mailing list submissions
by Denis Beina 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Denis Beina, Ph.D. ************************ Division des Sciences Com.Nat. UNESCO BP:1583, Bangui, Rép. Centrafricaine Tél. +23675048024

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Windows IPT Installation and SSL Configuration
by Bornhorst, Keith 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

Hello everyone, I have an IPT installation on a Windows box that is working fine, but I'd like to enable SSL and I'm having trouble figuring out the necessary configuration tweaks. Is there anyone out there that is also running IPT on Windows with a configuration similar to mine (Windows Server 2012, Apache Tomcat 8.5, IIS 8.5, BonCode Apache Tomcat AJP 1.3 Connector) that can help walk me through the necessary Tomcat/BonCode/IIS changes? Thanks, Keith Keith Bornhorst (bornhorst(a)usf.edu<mailto:bornhorst@usf.edu>) Web Development Team Leader, USF Water Institute School of Geosciences University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Ave, CHE 304, Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: (813) 974-7406 WaterInstitute.usf.edu<http://waterinstitute.usf.edu/> - WaterAtlas.org<http://wateratlas.usf.edu/> - PlantAtlas.org<http://plantatlas.usf.edu/> - TampaTreeMap.org<http://tampatreemap.usf.edu/> - ButterflyAtlas.org<http://butterflyatlas.usf.edu/>

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IPT: bringing you up to date
by Kyle Braak 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

Hi IPT users, This being my last day as IPT product manager (and last day at the GBIF Secretariat), I just wanted to take this opportunity to say goodbye and share some important points to bring you more up to date about the IPT: * A new and even more secure version (2.3.5) of the IPT is available for download[1]. Updating to this version will provide added protection against potential cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. As usual, update instructions can be found in the IPT Release Notes[2]. * A growing number of trusted IPT data hosting centres[3] are popping up around the world. These meet a strict set of criteria and provide reliable and free data hosting support. If you struggle to maintain your IPT installation, using a data hosting centre could save you significant time and money. * In July, a fantastic demo video showing how to use the IPT was added to the IPT library[4]. This video is featured as part of the short and concise IPT how-to publish guide[5], designed to get new publishers up to speed as fast as possible. * The IPT has been translated into Persian by a single devoted and hard-working volunteer. This will make the IPT available in eight languages, but it still needs more reviewing before it can be released[6]. If you are fluent in Persian, please consider joining the IPT translator team. It's easy to join following these instructions[7]. * For those interested in tracking the IPT's growth story, you can check out the newly added statistics page in IPT wiki[8]. I move on now in my career in search of new and exciting products to help develop. It has been an honor to serve the IPT community and truly amazing for me to watch IPT usage explode these last years. If you have any additional questions regarding the state of the IPT please don't hesitate to write to the GBIF Helpdesk[9]. Rest assured, you the IPT community remains well supported by the extremely talented and dedicated GBIF Secretariat. Wishing you all happy data publishing! Best regards, Kyle Braak IPT Product Manager GBIF Secretariat [1] http://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/2.3.5/ipt-2.3.5… [2] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki [3] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/dataHostingCentres [4] https://youtu.be/eDH9IoTrMVE [5] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/howToPublish [6] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1372 <https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1372>[7] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/HowToTranslate.wiki [8] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/Stats [9] helpdesk(a)gbif.org

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deployment question
by Julien Cigar 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Hello, I've setup some high availability for our hosted IPTs here. Basically I have two machines on which two VM-like (FreeBSD jails) have been created in which all hosted IPT are installed (along with Tomcat 8, OpenJDK 8). The IPT data directory is shared (NFS) through the two instances, and in front of those instances HAProxy is configured to dispatch the requests in an active/passive mode which means that only one Tomcat is accessed at time. If the primary Tomcat dies then the secondary take over. It seems to work well, but I'd like some feedback from IPT devs regarding potential problems that I might have missed (if any). I'm especially thinking about caching/locking issues and/or possible corruption of the IPT data directory (which IMHO should not occur if one instance if accessed at a time, but want to be sure). Thanks! Julien -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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Planned outages of GBIF.org / TDWG.org
by Tim Robertson 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Dear all, Our apologies in advance, but we expect disruptions in both GBIF and TDWG services next week, Thursday and Friday, 22-23 June 2017. Partial outages may occur while we relocate the servers for GBIF's and TDWG's systems to a new data centre within the University of Copenhagen. During this move, we anticipate that GBIF.org, demo.GBIF.org and the GBIF API will continue to operate on temporary servers, though user account creation, dataset registration and dataset crawling will all be temporarily suspended. The TDWG website and all TDWG mailing lists are likely to remain offline throughout the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience and will strive to reduce the disruption and its duration as much as possible. Best wishes, Tim

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IPT upgrade
by Julien Cigar 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hello, We have a bunch of IPT's installed here and in order to automate IPT upgrades I'd like to know if it's enough to just create the missing $ROOT/WEB-INF/datadir.location once the WAR has been updated? I'm asking this because I have 8 IPT instances and it becomes tedious (and I'm lazy) to go through all th 8 web interfaces just to enter the IPT datadir on every upgrade .. Thanks! Julien -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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IPT new version 2.3.4
by CALDENTEY Marta 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Dear Kyle, We have tried to upgrade our UAT environment and we get the following error. We also tried to request to https://gbrds.gbif-uat.org but we have no answer. Is this environment working? Kind regards, Marta [cid:image001.png@01D29C11.CFCC1040] Ing. Marta B. Caldentey Direccion de Sistemas de Informacion Mincyt Int 1014

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New version 2.3.4 with security update
by Kyle Braak 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Dear IPT users, This is an important message. IPT administrators should update their IPTs to the new version 2.3.4 available for download here<http://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/2.3.4/ipt-2.3.4…> [1], which has a security update. Note this version requires Java8 to run and instructions on how to upgrade to this version can be found in the Release Notes<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki> [2]. The security update fixes a critical vulnerability<https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-045.html> [3] that has been discovered in the Apache Struts web framework, which the IPT uses. According to this article<http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/apache-struts-framework.html> [4], this is a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to execute malicious commands on the IPT server. It also says that hackers are actively exploiting this vulnerability. If you don't have time to update your IPT immediately, I would advise you to take it offline until you can. Sincerely, Kyle Braak IPT Product Manager GBIF Secretariat [1] http://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/2.3.4/ipt-2.3.4… [2] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki [3] https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-045.html [4] http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/apache-struts-framework.html

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Registering a new data provider
by Quentin Groom 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

I administer an IPT and would like to publish a checklist on the IPT that comes from a university in another country. How can we register that organisation as the origin of the data? Regards Quentin Dr. Quentin Groom (Botany and Information Technology) Botanic Garden Meise Domein van Bouchout B-1860 Meise Belgium ORCID: 0000-0002-0596-5376 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376> Landline; +32 (0) 226 009 20 ext. 364 FAX: +32 (0) 226 009 45 E-mail: quentin.groom(a)plantentuinmeise.be Skype name: qgroom Website: www.botanicgarden.be

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