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Moved Host
We've moved APLawrence.com to a new web host. If you are reading this, you are on the new host.
I have comments shut off temporarily while DNS propagates. I'll turn them on again soon.
There may be other issues. The old server crashed hard and some files were damaged. Damaged is a lot worse than lost - if the files were missing, I could just replace them, but damaged is harder to identify. If you come across anything odd, please let me know.
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Thu Dec 10 20:17:28 2009: TonyLawrence
Comments are now back up at the new site (still down at old)
Thu Dec 10 22:06:39 2009: TonyLawrence
Site is mostly up but email is down.
If you need to reach me, use pcunix@gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 22:19:38 2009: TonyLawrence
I see indexes are broken - I'll fix them tomorrow - heading out for poker
Fri Dec 11 14:01:33 2009: BruceGarlock
http://bgarlock.com
Curious: who is the new host?
Fri Dec 11 14:06:30 2009: MarcFarnumRendino
My sympathy; file damage is indeed a huge pain - what about comparing to a recent backup?
Fri Dec 11 14:47:34 2009: BigDumbDinosaur
http://bcstechnology.net
If you come across anything odd, please let me know.
Well, Tony...now that you mention it, has your wife spoken to you recently about your behavior? <Grin>
Fri Dec 11 14:42:13 2009: TonyLawrence
The host is the same - Web.com
I've been with them since 1997 and never had any problems until the past few months. In talking to them yesterday, they explained that the hardware is getting old. So why not move it? Well, because they don't do BSD anymore, I'd have to move to Linux.
So.. I pulled the trigger. But email is still down (should be up within the next hour or so) and odd scripts and stuff aren't working, plus some missing files, some damage as I said - MOST everything is fine but I have some work ahead of me.
One of the odd broken things is that the email comment notifications aren't getting to me. The script isn't throwing an error - it thinks the mails were sent. Other strange stuff with Perl locking.. great fun!
Fri Dec 11 19:00:41 2009: TonyLawrence
Well, they have most of the mail issues fixed, so that's good.
The odd scripting problem was POST's vs. GETS. The old server would send a cgi href as a GET, the new one uses POST. Most of my scripts were using CGI.pm anyway, but I still had a few leftovers I had never got around to changing - I'm still chasing those but I think I got the important ones.
I still don't understand what's going on with my perl locking - I'll look at that next.
Sat Dec 12 18:13:12 2009: TonyLawrence
I think I've replaced everything that was lost. Now I have to write something to look for damage.
Sat Dec 12 18:28:23 2009: TonyLawrence
And with this post we should have comment emails working again (I hope).
Sat Dec 12 18:45:07 2009: TonyLawrence
The comment email problem was that I couldn't use Mail::Sendmail - I had to revert to using /usr/lib/sendmail.
I still haven't figured out my locking problem but have worked around it. Other minor issues were that with shared hosting I no longer have access to the Apache config, so I've had to put things in .htaccess that I used to do there.
I think we are just about done with the migration.
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