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Website downtime

Posted: 30 Nov 2006 12:22
by Cyberia
The website will be taken off line sometime Saturday evening ( will be late) till early Sunday morning. This is being done so we can instigate a server move. After we bring the site back up again you will have to wait for the new server to propagate your DNS ( If you see the 'site is down' message hit CTRL-F5, if you still see it then you need to wait :), this can take anything upto 24-48 hours but usually only about an hour.

Posted: 03 Dec 2006 12:54
by Dust
Well, if you can read this, you found the new location.

There where a bit more problems than expected, not sure if we can transfer the domain name. Stay tuned.

Posted: 03 Dec 2006 23:49
by Dust
Well, if you have comments or questions about the new site migration, ask them here.

Some answers:

- Cy and Myself intend to move the Domain Name "thecorewithin.net" to this IP, but I have only slight clue how this works and Cy is heavily overworked IRL already
- A popular request was to disable SSL for HTTPS. I therefore made that non mandatory. You will lose encryption by not using SSL tho. Maybe I can somehow set it up so you will be forced to use https for login but not anything else.
- I will make my ca certificate downloadable somehow, you can import it into your browser and shut it up about "unknown certification authority"
- Theres apparently a bug in the DKP frame jail thingie. It does not resize on some machines. Well, it does resize here, I had those problems with cy's server too, but fixed them by allowing java script execution. You don't have to use the frame thingie for dkp to work, so just use https://outland.dnsalias.net/tcw/modules/eqdkp_source/directly.
- As you've seen above, bbcode doesn't seem to work. I'll take a look at that later if I have time. Sometimes it works tho. Realy spooky.
- I got speed complaints. If you are not happy with the speed, try using http instead of https. I am not sure what else slows this down. Maybe mod_gzip. The server itself should be fast and close, it's standing right here in switzerland. Just 20 ms ping :D

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 00:44
by Knetter
The time on the server seems to be about 12 minutes off. When all the important stuff is working, could you check that please? Otherwise it will only mark a post as read 12 minutes after you read it, which can be quite annoying.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 02:15
by Dust
Knetter wrote:The time on the server seems to be about 12 minutes off. When all the important stuff is working, could you check that please? Otherwise it will only mark a post as read 12 minutes after you read it, which can be quite annoying.
I tried it... but it seems I can't change the time, even as root I get a permission error. Must be one of the drawbacks of a virtual dedicated server.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 12:28
by Jora
Somehow the display what threads are unread disappears after being displayed once for me.
So when I go back on the site it shows some forums as containing unread threads but as soon as I enter one of those forums all threads are marked as read.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 12:30
by Jora
Hmm, the reason for that seems to be that he seems to think it is a new visit whenever I enter a forum or a thread.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 13:03
by Dust
Maybe something wrong with session management. (Cookie path?). Or something weird going on with time stamps.
Are you using https?

On the old server we where in document root, now we're in /tcw.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 13:18
by Idorian
got the same "problem" as Jora, i'm using the Https link.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 13:22
by Jora
I tried both with and without https now, same problem.
Might be the eqdkp_sid and eqdkp_data cookies. They are at path '/' while the user cookie is at '/tcw'

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 13:25
by Knetter
Yeah, I just checked, and I got the same problem as well.

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 13:27
by Azmi
same problem here, abit annoying really

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 14:23
by Dust
CookiePath was set. I removed that setting, and it seems to work now. Hopefully :)

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 14:27
by Idorian
It works here, thx for the service :-)

Posted: 04 Dec 2006 16:18
by Knetter
Working here as well. Thx for fixing it.