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before they can be complete; click on the "Complete Add-on" button to make them so | before they can be complete; click on the "Complete Add-on" button to make them so | ||
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AMO | == AMO == | ||
If you see some_string_define on AMO, it's either 1) a raw string define, or (more likely) 2) Apache needs to restart to pick up the [http://us.php.net/gettext gettext()] changes | * AMO uses [http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtmlb/index.html Zeus], which heavily caches content. You can tell you're getting a cached copy of the content by looking at the headers and seeing "Via: Moz-Cache-zlb??" where ?? is a number and not seeing no-cache headers. ''being logged in bypasses this cache completely'' | ||
* If you see ''some_string_define'' on AMO, it's either 1) a raw string define, or (more likely) 2) Apache needs to restart to pick up the [http://us.php.net/gettext gettext()] changes. | |||
* AMO runs on a cluster of servers. To tell what server is showing you the current page look for the "X-AMO-ServedBy" header. | |||
* To view the revision of AMO you're currently seeing, view-source of any page; in the bottom, you'll see something like <pre><!-- r24322 --></pre><p>This means you're at SVN revision number 24322 -- you can cross-link this to whatever revision number was posted in the checkin comment in the bug. | |||
* Pages won't validate due to some proprietary attributes we use (like "addonname") but it should be very close. | |||
= | == Production == | ||
===https://addons.mozilla.org/=== | |||
* Database queries are cached in memcache for 60 minutes. This means if you change something that doesn't invalidate the cache it won't actually change for up to 60 minutes. | |||
* If you want a really fast check to see if basic infrastructure is working look at the [https://addons.mozilla.org/services/monitor.php services monitor]. This is also one of the things nagios watches. | |||
* Many scripts are run periodically via cron. This means certain things won't update right away (in addition to the cache timeouts). Some examples: | |||
** Calculating weekly download, total download, collections, and review stats happens every 20 minutes | |||
** Calculating the compatibility report happens every 5 minutes | |||
** You can see exact times and all cron jobs in {{bug|487503}} | |||
===https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/=== | |||
* Used by applications to see if their add-ons are up to date. Can be modified using about:config by changing | |||
extensions.update.url | |||
* Should only output XML. Ever. | |||
===https://services.addons.mozilla.org/=== | |||
* Used for the API. | |||
** In Firefox's "Get Add-ons" (Tools->Add-ons->Get Add-ons). This can be configured using about:config by changing | |||
extensions.getAddons.recommended.url | |||
extensions.getAddons.search.url | |||
** For external sites, both 3rd party and sites like [http://addons.mozilla.jp/ addons.mozilla.jp] | |||
** Should only output XML. Ever. | |||
===https://facebook.addons.mozilla.org/=== | |||
* Only used for an old facebook app and not currently updated. {{bug|474466}} decides its fate. | |||
== Staging == | |||
Found at: https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/ | |||
* The site updates from SVN every 15 minutes automatically. It also reruns the clean and build scripts which make the compressed js files, etc. | |||
* The database is a very old copy from production AMO. It is only updated when requested through IT (talk to webdev first please). | |||
* If you're feeling wild you can directly access the [https://phpmyadmin.authstage.mozilla.com/index.php?db=addons_reskin staging database] to verify table structure or data. | |||