The wiki - problems

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:25 pm

Yay 2!!!

Post by **winston** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:29 pm

OK - the new server is up and running, and the wiki is back in its proper place; editing is re-enabled and it should be a damned sight faster now.

It may take an hour or two before your ISPs DNS catches up (the time-to-live on the record is only 1 hour, but some ISPs seem to have DNS servers that don't seem to honour the TTL and take days to update, ho hum...)

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:35 pm

Great work, winston! I had every faith in your wiki-mantic powers.

Captain Hesperus

Post by **Kaks** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:48 pm

Thank you very much winston, it's all really fast now! And now all we need to do is to update all them pages!

Ooops!

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:22 pm

Yay for Winston!

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:28 pm

Yay dude! Nice job!

Can I get a new password for my ClymAngus account now please? Despite being up and sprinting my inbox is still running on empty.

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:06 pm

Rescue!

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:30 pm

Excellent

. Now hopefully all of the editing backlog will be taken care of and new OXPs will be in place soon.

Best wishes,
Oscar

_ds_ · Post by **_ds_** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:38 pm

It would be useful to have the Variable and ParserFunctions extenstions installed for wiki use; with those in place, I think that the OXPs list could be made quite a lot more manageable (with a template or two).

Incidentally, security support for etch will cease in 11 months and 4 days…

Solas · Post by **Solas** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:47 pm

zippy Wiki

Wiki'd

aceshigh · Post by **aceshigh** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:11 pm

I cant access the wiki today...

Post by **winston** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:00 pm

***GRRR***

Dammit.

It seems like the hardware is STILL flaky, and it's gone down again. I'm travelling at the moment so it will have to just stay down until I get a chance to transfer it back to the old UltraSPARC while the proper box is sorted out *again*.

Post by **Kaks** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:31 pm

Very strange, the wiki is working ok just now!

I vaguely remember an urban legend where a hospital cleaner would disconnect a bed's artificial lung/kidney/heart from a specific bed when doing her rounds. For months the doctors couldn't figure out why all the patients given that particular bed would keep dying so regularly. I wonder if there's something like that happening inside the data centre....

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:17 am

It's back on the old version (at least the update I did to my page and the OXP pages has rolled back and gone), and judging by the speed on the back-up hardware again.

Either that or something has gone very weird and my work network here is having cache fun...

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:17 am

Hmmm, the changes I made yesterday - added setScript() & commsMessage() functions to

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite ... ence:_Ship

edit: ~~are still there~~ are indeed gone. I had my page changes cached.

Anyone wanting to make sure, you could try adding '?dummy=1234' to the base address you want to look at. That's usually enough to force any cache to fetch the actual page... using the url above as an example,

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite ... dummy=1234

would fetch the latest page from the real server. If the url you're looking for already contains a ? then you'd need to change

http://www.whatever.com?abc=123&def=456

to

http://www.whatever.com?abc=123&def=456&dummy=1234

usually having a ? is enough to convince any cache that the page you're trying to look at is dynamic, and shouldn't be cached anyway. As they say, YMMV!