recent changes in General settings

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Last Post: 2 hours ago   (RSS)

By kitsguru - November 22

My server has both ipv6 and ipv4 addresses. In CMSB  3.80 -> General Settings under Recent Changes, it is filling up with IP changes, switching from ipv4 to iopv6 addresses and back again depending on the users connection. This is not very useful info. My addresses are static so this just fills that log. It would be helpful if we could turn that off.

Jeff Shields
yaadev.com

By kitsguru - 4 hours ago

are those ip addresses only those that access cmsb/admin or any user who accesses the website? I am unsure of the intent of this info. Personally I am more interested in IPs that access the site when there is an issue and we have that in the developer logs and audit logs. The last server IP has no meaning for me. That may not be true for everyone.

Jeff Shields
yaadev.com

By Dave - 3 hours ago

Hi Jeff, 

It logs $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] anytime CMSB files are loaded and more than an hour has passed since the last check.

In general, the "Recent Changes" section lets us see if anything has happened on the server recently, such as if a web host moved an account to a new server or IP block, downgrades, upgrades, etc.  It lets us see at a quick glance if there were any other changes that might have caused things to stop working.  

Whenever we get a call that a website has been working for years and all of a sudden it just stopped working, we check that list, and it's often a server change that the user was unaware of.

If you manage your own server that's probably much less likely to happen, though.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

By kitsguru - 2 hours ago

ok I see that, i like most of the info such as php, apache or whatever etc, just not the server IP. Anyway i can certainly live with it.

Jeff Shields
yaadev.com