I'm doing the final step to consolidate all of dee nee, rbicentral and my personal sites by moving the forums to a virtual server running at my house. THe last step is the forums, my test went well so I'm doing tonight. Here's the schedule:
1) Take the current forum offline
2) Change the DNS so forums.dee-nee.com points to my house IP
3) Export the database to an sql file
4) Upload the file from work to my house
5) Import the file on the new server
6) Profit
Steps #2 & #4 are going to take the longest, so don't expect it up until morning. When you change your DNS record, it can take from a few minutes to 12 hours before your system knows of the changes.
Anyway, you are free to keep trying until you get in. Test thoroughly
Quote from: Gantry on 05/02/13, 04:56:50 PM
3) Export the database to an sql file
This could take months.
It's surprisingly only about 400 megs, didn't take long at all. If wulf or anyone wants to try to break in the test board the url is:
http://ft.dee-nee.com (http://ft.dee-nee.com)
Everything you add there will get deleted though.
It appears the test version is read-only... I was going to add some presidential death threats to test whether you would get to deleting it before the Secret Service found it, but I guess that'll have to wait for another time.
I didn't mean for it to be read only, and works for me. Probably because I have admin rights. Guess I'll try to create a new account and see what's up.
I registered a new user and made a test post no problem, well after I installed sendmail so I can send activation emails. Can someone else try? Beefy can you send a screenshot of what you are seeing?
QuoteYour attachment couldn't be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow.
Please consult your server administrator for more information.
3 MB Jpg ...
I got an error about the location not being found, seems like a few places (themes, attachments) have specifically set the local path which has changed. I could do an "ln -s" but best to figure them out now. Not sure if these will have to be re-done after I wipe out the db for the final transfer, but I'll keep track just in case.
Try again, as it works for me but we have different errors.
Same error.
Hmm, 1.7MB goes through but not 2.7 - not sure where this is coming from
OK try again, php.ini had its own limit
Booya. Fuck PHP.
So far it is a lot less scarry than I thought. No hangups so far.
Making a dictatorial decision to have new users default to the modern theme. The old SMF theme is ugly and the text sizes make me sad. You old farts may have to manually change, though you are probably locked in. Should also make the quick reply on by default.
Everything seems good and I'm getting antsy, so I'm starting this at 9pm instead of 10pm
It's been nice knowing you guys. See you all in hell.
Set the fucking DNS TTL lower, shit nuts.
i'm scared
Things are fine how they are. I don't know why Gantry has to go around ruining everything all the time.
Quote from: ForumsHey, Gantry, I never went down, man! You never got me down, Gantry! You hear me, you never got me down.
Quote from: defen on 05/02/13, 06:49:21 PM
Set the fucking DNS TTL lower, shit nuts.
They won't let me, no option to change...
So I took a nap, so we're back to 10pm.
We are back up, though many of you own't get the DNS switchover for awhile. If you see this post, you are on the new servers.
Attachment test.
The theme that I think most of us use looks kinda fucked up. Dee-Nee Forums is written twice on top of each other on the top left of the screen.
Yeah that looks dumb, let me edit it. THe link back to the main page is unnecessary at this point.
FOURTH!
Better?
God this theme is ugly
Everything looks normal now.
So by normal, you mean "like ass" right? Get out of the sticks people, VIVA CURVE THEME
Not a fan of whatever advertisement that is in the top right of the Curve Theme.
Forums working well on teh tapatalk.
Quote from: Nacho on 05/02/13, 11:42:12 PM
Not a fan of whatever advertisement that is in the top right of the Curve Theme.
Honestly never even noticed it, I could remove it but I'm lazy. So fuck you
Logo gone
No it isn't.
You are cached, hold down shift and hit the refresh button
Giving this curve theme a try, but I doubt it'll last long.
Embrace change
Using the default theme (which I assume is "curve") right now... don't know whether I can keep this up. It's like I'm crashing some other forum.
Holy fuck fix this fix it now fuck you fuck you.
I've been using Curve for a long time, you dolts need to get onboard this train because it ain't stoppin.
Fuck Curve.
If you want to change, go to your profile, modify it via Look and Layout.
So no other issues outside of a switch of themes? I can't believe how easy it was, should have done this ages ago.
What are the benefits?
Newer hardware, running as a virtual machine as my house (so I don't need a separate box), faster internet pipe. Basically consolidated the main dee-nee site, rbi central, my chicago punk wiki and forums into one system. Get to drop two servers.
I hear your mom prefers faster Internet pipe.
I believe everyone is a fan of that, Richard
didn't know about this "curve" nonsense until now. Holy shit this is intolerable. Going back.
/unless you guys think this theme makes me look more sexy.
//cuz I could be talked in curve if you think that.
UPDATE: Sticking with curve for the time being, and finding it tolerable.
Have changed to curve. Will give a shot...
Fools. You fools.
All curve, all day, all night
I've stuck with it. It's fine.
I've noticed no real difference.
Some picky/judgy people on this here internets sites.
It's faster for me at home, which obviously isn't a surprise. It was more of a convenience/efficiency thing than a performance one. Consolidating all my sites into the same system I work off everyday simplifies thing.
Quote from: Reds on 05/03/13, 07:56:51 PM
Have changed to curve. Will give a shot...
CURVE FTW
;)
Yeah, I haven't switched back either.
Nor have I, though I do more dee neeing from teh tapatalk than I ever thought I would.
I'll never leave the default theme. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Search box on every page is worth it enough for me.
The attachments upload directory is not writable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved.
When did you get that Gerlost? Trying to put in your own aviator?
I don't know when it changed, but the search is actually useful now, usually find what I'm looking for on the first try.
Yep, tried to upload a new avatar, didn't work.
It's been fixed, thanks for the heads up
Test post - changed some permissions.
Test attachment
HEY CURVE USERS!!!
Look at the main SMF page here - http://www.simplemachines.org/ (http://www.simplemachines.org/) - I am thinking of editing the template to add links to all the dee-nee properties up at the top-right as they do. Maybe a link for the main site, forums (including AG, RBI, Politics links), the wiki and whatever other pages people click on most? Thoughts? Too much clutter? Would anyone ever use it?
People still own blackberries?
Sadly, yes
I like it. The links at the top, not Blackberries.
Let me see if I can leech it off their template.
We had a minor facelift in progress for the whole site at one point. What was that, 2007?
Something like that, all some of perl trickery to simplify the code base. Looked at it briefly before the server migration, wasn't worth the effort to revisit.
I couldn't even begin to guess which hard drive all that shit is on. Wherever the RBI stuff is buried probably. Now I'm getting the itch again; let's see if it holds out until I take a week off this summer.
The main site was still running on the oldest server until very recently, think we tried the "site update" stuff on the forums server, aka ward.
Bump - got a new CPU fan to install so I'm taking it down at 9pm tonight? Why 9pm? So I don't have to start a new thread.
Should only be down for about 15 minutes
You lazy fuck...
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6232/6259811640_af1146dc66_z.jpg)
damn you
Going down in 5 minutes!
Well this fan seems every bit as loud as the other one, not cool.
Seems fine to me.
Yeah, I can't hear anything either. I think Gantry is starting to lose it.
What you don't hear is the god damned loudest server fan ever. Gantry is right to replace it