Help talk:Accessing Cloud VPS instances/Archives/2012

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Request section for new Git/Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts

Leave a comment with:

• Your preferred wiki username - will also be your git username, legal name would be reasonable (this will be permanent so choose wisely)
• Your preferred email address
• "I already DID/DID NOT have a Subversion account"
• Your svn account name if you have one, or if you didn't, your preferred shell account name (1 to 17 numbers and lower case ASCII letters, as well as the . (full stop), - (hyphen-minus) and _ (low line) characters)

and someone with the relevant privileges will create an account for you. Check back here to see whether it's been done. User:Sumanah 02:58, 19 March 2012‎ (UTC) - migrated from LiquidThreads

Erm, this doesn't work; the anons do not have the user rights to post LQT User:Jeffw 03:11, 19 March 2012‎ (UTC) - migrated from LiquidThreads

Aiee. Thanks for pointing this out. Argh. Ryan's addressing this. User:Sumanah 23:56, 19 March 2012‎ (UTC) - migrated from LiquidThreads

I've went ahead and made a requests area at mediawikiwiki:Project:Labsconsole_accounts. User:Jeffw 03:18, 20 March 2012‎ (UTC) - migrated from LiquidThreads

git access

This page does not really explain how to get to the git repository as promised at the top. At least, I could not see it. The link to gerrit simply brings you to a code review page without any explanation of how to actually do a local git clone. User:Greg Sabino Mullane 23:37, 23 March 2012‎ (UTC) - mirgrated from LiquidThreads

Minor tweak for login instructions

This is listed in step 1: "Go to the login page and enter your username..." but it is probably only needed to enter your username in step 2, after you click the Forgot... link. --svemir (talk) 13:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Done, diff jeremyb (talk) 17:58, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Forwarding not working

While trying to do ssh nischayn22@bastion.wmflabs.org -L 8080:greensmw1:80 I am able to log into the instance, but when opening localhost:8080 It shows "No Data Recieved" and the console shows "channel 4: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out"--nischayn22 (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Before you can get forwarding working you need to be able to connect to that port at all. (even from the inside) Make sure something's listening there, double check your security groups (which cannot be changed for an instance after creation) / iptables / etc. Try #wikimedia-labs on freenode if you still can't figure it out.

$ ssh bastion1.pmtpa.wmflabs nc -v greensmw1 80
nc: connect to greensmw1 port 80 (tcp) failed: Connection timed out

--jeremyb (talk) 20:35, 16 August 2012 (UTC)