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General Category => Web-site/Forum news => Topic started by: Administrator on December 29, 2019, 08:17:56 PM

Title: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Administrator on December 29, 2019, 08:17:56 PM

Hello folks,
Starting tomorrow these forums and web pages will be moving to a new server - during this time the web-site and forums will be in maintenance mode or off-line.

The move may take a day or two to complete due to DNS server changes and propagation delays/caching.

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 30, 2019, 03:54:05 AM

Thanks for the info! Hope you are enjoying a few ?work free? days while taking care of WC and the great forums you provide us for free!!

A slightly early Happy New Year!!!  [cheer]

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 02, 2020, 02:06:13 PM

And we're back! Thank you for your patience.

Some forum changes:
1. SMF updated to the latest (2.0.17)
2. Attachments: Can now be up to 20MB per post (up from 2MB) with up to 10 attachments per post (no limit per individual attachment (outside of the 20MB total)).


If you spot anything obviously wrong, please post in this thread so I can take a look.

Thanks & Happy New Year,
Stu.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Blicj11 on January 02, 2020, 04:37:16 PM

Thanks Stu. Love the new Cat icon in the forum!

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: mcrossley on January 02, 2020, 04:37:47 PM

Well done! I like the cat logo too :)

One thing I noticed in Chrome, the site is now showing as "Not secure", no idea why though, the cert is OK (and Chrome thinks it is too) and all the resources are using https: ?

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: mcrossley on January 02, 2020, 05:10:42 PM

And now it is flagged as secure again - as you were!

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 02, 2020, 05:55:42 PM

Thanks Stu for the great app and the new server! Hope you had a great family Christmas and New Years celebration!! [cheer] [tup] ThU32:-) ThU5:-)

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: wurzelmac on January 02, 2020, 08:04:29 PM

Well done.

Happy New Year, Stu.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 02, 2020, 09:34:18 PM

Thanks folks.

Mark the issue you are seeing is probably caused by external images in the page (banners for example).

Cheers,
Stu.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Randall75 on January 02, 2020, 10:28:23 PM

Thanks Stu
 Again nicely done as always you have always done a great job I have been using  your software from the beginning I believe it was in 2005 or early maybe 2002 when I started using it I lost a lot of my data when my old emac crashed I did not have the info backed up
Again THANK You so much [cheers1] .    [beer]

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 02, 2020, 11:21:12 PM

Thanks Randall - that pint of Guinness is exactly what I'm drinking right now :)

Title: Belated Happy New Year! (Re: Server move 30th/31st December)
Post by: elagache on January 02, 2020, 11:24:20 PM

Thanks Stu for the forum software upgrades!  ThU32:-)

Quote from: mcrossley on January 02, 2020, 04:37:47 PM

Well done! I like the cat logo too :)

x2!!

Belated Happy New Year everybody!!  [cheer]

Quote from: WCDev on January 02, 2020, 11:21:12 PM

Thanks Randall - that pint of Guinness is exactly what I'm drinking right now :)

Glad that you are getting in some R'n'R' Stu!!   [bounce]

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Randall75 on January 03, 2020, 01:02:51 AM

Quote

Thanks Randall - that pint of Guinness is exactly what I'm drinking right now

Best beer there is Stu GUINNESS  8 ounce bottles here but good

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Steve on January 03, 2020, 04:16:10 PM

Thanks, Stu, and good to hear from you. It's been a while!

I noticed a change with the new server software that may have significant effect on our particular forum. While posting in the 2019 weather observation thread, I did a copy/paste from my web page statistics, which included the Mac degree symbol. Any text after the symbol, despite being shown in the edit window, disappears when actually posted. Worked fine if I removed them. I tried to manually append the degree symbol instead of copy/paste with the same results.

https://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2927.msg29681;topicseen#msg29681

Thanks for the continued support!
Steve

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 03, 2020, 07:05:28 PM

A search for temperatures in posts seems to confirm the missing 'degree' symbol. There is either an extra space or a "?" instead. Hopefully a default setting in the SMF software that Stu might be able to change. Maybe even Edouard. IDUNO! [blush] I do know that most forum software is very particular about what characters are allowed in posts, but those are usually characters related to programming languages.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 03, 2020, 11:16:46 PM

Definitely a character encoding issue (most likely in the DB) - I'll take a backup tomorrow and look into it - thanks for letting me know  ThU5:-)

[Edit: Yes, checked the DB, sadly not a simple job to fix without losing data. I'll need to think about it].

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 04, 2020, 03:36:17 PM

I vote to work on any WC problems... ThU5:-)
not someone else's software! [banghead]
That symbol is rather redundant unless someone thinks temperature is measured in Hz/mm/liters/etc. :)

I help admin another forum, still using SMF 2.0.15, it does allow/display the degree symbol.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 16, 2020, 11:41:38 PM

Just a note folks, I'll be taking the forums off-line sometime over the weekend to fix the character encoding issue - hopefully will be off-line for less than an hour.

Cheers,
Stu.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 17, 2020, 12:05:55 AM

Just another "above and beyond" effort by our great Dev! [cheer] ThU5:-)

Title: Thank you Stu! (Re: Server move 30th/31st December)
Post by: elagache on January 17, 2020, 10:25:39 PM

Dear Stu, X-Air, and WeatherCat faithful,

Quote from: WCDev on January 16, 2020, 11:41:38 PM

Just a note folks, I'll be taking the forums off-line sometime over the weekend to fix the character encoding issue - hopefully will be off-line for less than an hour.

Thank you Stu!  ThU5:-)  I hope your plan will be indeed be swift and painless as I'm sure you still have plenty of things to do!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: WCDev on January 19, 2020, 03:35:02 PM

Done. You should now be able use the ° character, or any character for that matter, in new posts.

Old posts are untouched - if you have an important post that isn't displaying the correct characters, you should be able to edit it.

If you spot any issues, please let me know in this thread.

Thanks,
Stu.

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 19, 2020, 04:29:24 PM

Thanks!!

Title: Thank you Stu! (Re: Server move 30th/31st December)
Post by: elagache on January 19, 2020, 11:05:06 PM

Dear Stu, X-Air, and WeatherCat faithful,

Quote from: xairbusdriver on January 19, 2020, 04:29:24 PM

Thanks!!

Yeah, yeah!  Just what da' man said!! . . . .  [cheer]

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: Server move 30th/31st December
Post by: Steve on January 21, 2020, 02:51:46 AM

Thank you, sir!

Quote from: WCDev on January 19, 2020, 03:35:02 PM

Done. You should now be able use the ° character, or any character for that matter, in new posts.

Old posts are untouched - if you have an important post that isn't displaying the correct characters, you should be able to edit it.

If you spot any issues, please let me know in this thread.

Thanks,
Stu.