Neuroimage server maintenance

[ftadel]

• Find a new emailing solution (via USC Exchange, or paid external SMTP server)
• Add Discourse to the backup script on Neuroimage: (/etc/cron.weekly/backup_zombie.cron)
  • Folder: /var/discourse
  • Running Docker container
  • Discourse backup (to be copied from the Docker image)
• Re-organize and clean all the php scripts in /var/www/html/bst.
• Create user, in includes/inc_validFunctions.m:

  • Approve new user automatically, so that it is not added to the review list of the admins/moderators.
    From rails console:
    u = User.create!(username: "name", email: "name@email.com", password: "password")
    u.approve(Discourse.system_user, false) # if manual approvals are required
    u.activate`

  • Add the user fields to the Discourse database: interests, occupation
    And possibly migrate all the existing MySQL userfields to the new Discourse user fields
    https://neuroimage.usc.edu/forums/admin/customize/user_fields

• Stop completely using the old MySQL database (initially used by VBulletin), except for the usage logs:
  All the PHP scripts must be modified to access directly the Discourse PostGres database, or use the web API