SiteStory Testbed

For individuals and institutions that would like to testdrive the archiving of their web server content with SiteStory we are offering a SiteStory Testbed. In particular, that means that we are providing a SiteStory Web Archive installation that is free for everyone to use. The SiteStory Web Archive is the central piece in the entire SiteStory architecture as it allows to offload a Web server's content and provides an interface to access the archived resources - Mementos.

To be able to offload content to our archive, users need to download, install, and configure the Apache Module mod_sitestory on their Web server. A detailed howto can be found in the section Getting Started.

The configuration parameters for the module to offload content to our SiteStory Web Archive are: 

 <IfModule sitestory_module>
    EnableArchiving On
    ArchiveHost www.theresourcedepot.com
    ArchivePort 8080
    ArchivePath /SiteStory_Testbed/put/
    ArchiveTimeGate http://www.theresourcedepot.com/SiteStory_Testbed/timegate/
    EnableIP On
    #Excluded 
 </IfModule>

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer this service in an unlimited fashion. That means we might have to put a cap on the amount of data that is being offloaded to our archive. For that reason we ask users interested in this Testbed to send an email to SiteStory-Testbed@googlegroups.com and provide the following information:

  • name and email address of primary contact,
  • domain name of web server offloading content, and
  • IP address of web server.
With this information we are able to notify a user in case we have to ask to stop the offloading or in case we even have to block the transmissions to our archive.

Once a user has offloaded content it is available in the SiteStory Web Archive. An easy way to access the archived content (Mementos) is via our end-user interface MementoFox. MementoFox is an extension for the Mozilla FireFox browser.