The “Changelog” is a new category in our blog where we publish important changes to freistilbox infrastructure and functionality.

Each freistilbox cluster comes with its own “shell node” that customers access via SSH to run maintenance tasks like mysqldump or drush. In order to make it easy to access the right website instance, each one has its own user account.

So far, the interactive use of these user accounts was severely limited by tight write restrictions on the user home directory.

In a change we’ve rolled out this week, we’ve replaced the old instance directories with homes to which the shell user has full write access. This solves the problems that many customers experienced when they tried to store configuration files or to create arbitrary files and subdirectories.

Together with all the symlinks to important website directories, the work subdirectory that we used to create as a workaround for the previous write restrictions has been automatically moved to the new shell user home directory. Apart from the full write permissons, everything should look and function exactly as it used to.

Enjoy!