Servers

We have a number of servers that you’ll regularly encounter as a web dev.

khan is a development server. If you choose not to develop locally, this option is available.

*.allizom.org: all our staging servers share this domain.

webdev1.db.scl3.mozilla.com is the webdev mysql server. See Webdev Database Cluster.

cm-vpn01 is where our server logs are copied. Note that you need to file a bug to get access to this server.

Served Environments

There are two or three main environments for our web sites:

• dev (currently “stage” or “preview”) which serves the latest master.
• stage
  • Currently amo-next and crash-stats.stage are our only “stage” environments.
  • This is what will go live to production.
• production

VPN

To get to any Mozilla servers you will need VPN access. There are two VPN networks: Mozilla-MV (Mountain View office VPN) and Mozilla-VPN (also known as the Datacenter VPN).

If you want to use Mozilla’s shared network volumes (like fs2) you can connect to the Mozilla-MV VPN.

You’ll need to connect to the Mozilla VPN if you want to access anything in the data centres (such as khan, any database server, etc). All Mozilla employees with a valid LDAP login have access to this VPN by default.

On OS X, we recommend Viscosity for VPN.