I figured this might be a good topic to have around. A nice record of things that need fixed from a technical point rather then a design point.
For the first: The server clock seems to be an hour off. I noticed this when it reported my posting times to me. Easy fix.
Site URL should be masked as "randomland.net" or the domain should be forwarded to your server's IP.
It is masked but drupal does weird things that forward it to the gotdns one. I am working on just setting my server as registered IP and not forwarding at all. It might cost money if I want a decent host to do it though.
Yeah, I know you were working on this one. It'd be worth a couple of bucks to have it forwarded, so long as your IP is semi-static and you don't get yelled at for running a nearly zero-traffic server. :)
Got that one fixed! But I think it created another.
I'm having a lot of problems staying logged in ever since you set the server to use the randomland.net domain name. I can log in just fine, but will get kicked within an hour or so. My guess is that the cookie is still registering to randomland.net. Then again, I could be way off.
This has happened on all systems I have tried (work, home, lappy, and phone)
Edit: it's quite apparent that the login is being only session persistent.
It might be a problem with the smf forum to drupal plugin. I will look at it.
hmmm, now I can't log in at the main site at all. Stink.
why is "style="border: none;">Follow us <a href=@randomnets" />" in the footer? I thinks we have an open tag someplace.
Fixed it.
It probably had something to do with you changing the "full HTML" input setup. I just told it the code was php and it's fine. Can we reenable this "disable rich text" option for full HTML? That component doesn't work properly on my phone. (I've been doing a lot of phoneywebs lately)
I mentioned somewhere that the wysiwyg text editor in Drupal does not work properly on my phonewebs (iPhone Safari browser). Apparently I'm not the only one noticing, as I found this thread (http://drupal.org/node/565756) with a quick google search. Maybe I'll try getting to that some time tomorrow.
The site seems really slooooooooowwwwwwwww now.
Slower than before? It has been pretty slow ever since it moved to Nick's server. I'm not sure it's any slower since he moved it to the VM...it is slow though.
It's speedier now. Still slow but nothing like it was yesterday/last night.
Part of the slowness is the connection being shared. More of the slowness in the server downloading updates. I would love to have more bandwidth but its not available where I am. Before we had to deal with overloaded and slow SQL servers from godaddy and that cow place. Now we have fast software but low bandwidth. So plah I don't know what else to do because I don't want to pay $150 a year on hosting. The godaddy was $60ish and not that great for the price. There are places that offer virtual private hosting and various server farms for an ok price but who knows how reliable/fast their equipment and network is. I just need something over 512k offered out here and then all will be fine.
It's usable now. I wouldn't worry about it unless we start getting a bunch of traffic.
I can handle allot of traffic as long as its not on the gallery. The main page is small and all the images get reused. So I don't think people just looking at articles will slow things unless there are more then 50 or so at the same time. But that's purely conjecture.
The server is slow like a dead bug stuck in 2000 year-old molasses. I underestimated how far its gig of memory would go. Running the host machine (mail.randomland.net) and the guest machine (www.randomland.net) is just too much for it. Each wants more then 500mb to run well and its all but unusable. So I will put some of my machines memory into it and see if I end up missing it. Unless someone has a LGA-775 board that takes ddr and has more then 2 memory slots. I have ddr laying around but nothing to use it in (the board that in the server will use both ddr and ddr2 but only one at a time and only 2 chips each) so yeah. I will fix that tomorrow. When its probably going to rain. Not that anyone will notice the system lag and there are probably only 4 people who frequent the site, and they are all admins. :)
I dropped the system to run level 3 (command line only) with only a minimal improvement in response time. So I guess I cannibalize my computer until I get more ram. Or I might find that there is not noticeable difference and just work with less. Whats windows really need anymore? 4 gigs min to run photoshop or a game without too much paging?
Well, if you're short on machines, you can use my old one. But it's loud, slow, and short on ram. You usually seem to have enough machines to go 'round though.
I could scratch together another machine (Brent gave me his old computer that has a bad memory something or other. No matter what you put it in it fails a memory test but it had a gig of ddr and a Pentium 4 and I could find a cheap mobo) but I was trying to minimize the number of computers I had running at any one time (both for heat issues and power consumption - not to be green but to be cheap) I could just run everything off of one install (web server and mail) rather then having the mail server host the VM for the web server. But then the hope of easy, complete, quick to restore backups would be gone (backups from making copies of the VM.) So more memory is the best option to allow both installs running in that box a little more room to breath. I used to have some just laying around but I seem to have given it all away.
Ok. The server now has 2gigs instead one one and its ddr2 rather then ddr. Performance seems to have more then doubled now that it isn't using the paging file.
Yep, it's much, much better now.
The Drupal favicon and the custom favicon fight for dominance. I notice my little RL symbol working for days at a time. Just now it switched back to little Drupal drippyface.
I simply replaced the icon file in the current theme. I'm not sure how it's getting overridden. Maybe it's pulling it from a default theme or default location? I think I read of other people having similar problems.
edit 10-17-2009. It seems to be my work computer that is causing the issue. However, with Xmarks installed (firefox bookmark syncing), the symptoms get passed around. Nonetheless, can you see any reason why one computer would display the wrong favicon? I surely can not -- it has been going on for too long to blame on caching issues, I think.
Login persistence is whack.
Wait....is "whack" a good thing? Because the whole "log in on the forums and enter a really big number for length of stay" thing is a little weird. Plus, I just logged in on the forums and I'm not logged in on the main site.
This seems classifiable as a "bug."
I changed the session time to an arbitrarily large number. Hope that helps. (I am still logged in from yesterday at the moment)
Cool. Login issues seem resolved. For now, at least.
On another note: "Books" are broken in Drupal. Existing ones are fine, except it seems that the prev-next links got removed. I'm having the same problem today as I did yesterday: I can not create new books or add existing nodes to a book.
If we are going to use some other sort of custom navigation for multipage stories, let me know. But as of now, it's borked.
Books are designed for multi page stories. I don't know what is up with them. On a only slightly related note I installed (yet another) module that takes the top taxonomy term from a page (the top term should be its category) and uses it for a breadcrumb. This works for sub-terms too if we actually start adding terms to the taxonomy rather then using the free tagging boxes. I think it would be nice to be able to add terms to the multi-select boxes of terms whilst creating a new node. Then you would not need to go into taxonomy beforehand. But if we flesh out our taxonomy a little more we wont have that problem because there will generalized enough terms already in place. (Like camping, hikeing, bikeing, fishing, pottery, tree-napping and so forth)
Cool. It seems like it should be set up like that "out of the box." But it's Drupal: the linux of cms's.
Anyway, that makes sense. I like your style. We can discuss the layout more on that one "permalinks" topic so this one doesn't become uselessly long.
http://randomland.net/sites/all/modules/smfforum/index.php/topic,50.0.html
Bug: server date seems to be off by about 30 minutes. (This makes universally wrong, regardless of timezone!) :P
I'm getting email failed delivery messages again :(
Oh. I bet I know why.
Oboes and band flies.
I'm not sure what you mean there. But the failure notices should be fixed. I had forgotten to add mail.randomland to the ddclient config.
I didn't mean much. And I fixed my stupid favicon problem. It was just a very persistent browser caching issue. Not that anyone cares.
The image upload page isn't showing the scaled version when you click "next step" and go to tag the images. It makes it harder to tag, especially if I just pick select ones from a folder.
Stylesheet it not parsing properly in Internet Explorer. I know, I don't use it either, but someone might. Possibly.
Stylesheet problem is fixed. CSS aggregation is not turned on in drupal.
Server time is all messed up again.
Last time I tried to set its local to gmt -8h it got way wacky. Each user also has their own time local setting. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Where there is a Linux, there is a compatibility issue.
Today, I bring you a compatibility issue with the image upload page. Perhaps I have the wrong fake-flash installed, but I can not get Firefox in Linux to let me use the multi-upload script thing. It just goes blank. Have you tried this via the Lin-dows?
I never did get around that Flashissue. I even reinstalled the Flash/Firefox plugin. Hmm...
Anyway, I was going to create a new page to the Drupal article about the picture project (http://randomland.net/tech/picture-project). I had originally set it up as a "book" so that I could easily link the many, many sub pages it is going to have. However, books are broken. What method of page navigation are we going to use? Because books are broken... :-\
Another problem: my stupid blog posts seem to be creeping into the tech section because I was throwing in some free "tech tags." Shouldn't that view only be pulling stuff with "section = tech"?
We could change it easy enough to do that...
I guess I wasn't thinking then I did that. It was only pulling things that had the tech free-tags associated with it. It should be fixed now to pull anything tagged 'tech' from the sections taxonomy.
Cool. I'll try to be more careful where I throw tags....I still don't really know what I'm doing, but it's coming...slowly.
A related question: if I make a "programming" tag under tech's free tags, is that the same tag as if I had written it into the free tag section? Or do we get multiple tags with the same name stored independently or each other?
They are separate vocabularies. So they are separately stored. I didn't know what I was doing when I set up the taxonomy (probably still don't) so if we want to rework that whole thing and combine some stuff them cooolio.
Combining stuff would make sense. I don't have any problem throwing any tags I see relevant into a single box / vocabulary dealy. It would probably make the most sense. Unless I am misunderstanding...
I combined the tech and general free-tagged vocabs and them merged the resulting duplicate terms.
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Server time seems to be off by an hour again...unless it's my profile settings.
Did Linux forget to "fall back?"
Your forum profile was off by an hour. Mine was off by 7. I changed them both to an offset of '0.' I thought that it was the offset from GMT not server time, seems like they do it wrong.
Hmm, odd. Yeah, I always thought you specify gmt offset. Weirdos. Oh well. Sorry to be so pesky.
Tis no problem. And hopefully now it is correct. Mine seems to be.
When you are not logged in to the forums and hit the "login" button, it sends you to Drupal's "register" page. Annoying.
I also ran into that today. I was planning on posting about it but you beat me to it.
Ok, I think I fixed it. I changed the URL in the forum's theme, anyway. If I missed an instance, let me know.
Did I change it in too many places?
I'm guessing it used to point to some SMF login page before. But I'm not positive. I just changed randomland.net/user/register to randomland.net/user/login. All is well (I think).
Cool. Thanks. That was probably my doing with the wrong page and all.
I fixed the input format for "Full HTML" (not a very representative name for what it does, by the way). You can now stack up my [rlimg] tags in the way you expect -- they don't do that full width image block anymore. It turned out to be the "linebreak" filter that was screwing it up. But that doesn't matter because the WYSIWYG editor adds linebreaks properly. So, yeah.
Check out the grid of pictures, here (http://randomland.net/rec/bike-tree), if you have admin rights (page is not published. I'll be finishing that page up later and it won't have the ugly wall-o-pictures.
The code for that is just as you'd expect to do:
[rlimg 839] [rlimg 1048] [rlimg 1036] [rlimg 1024] ...
Maybe I should be trying to integrate that into the gallery for some nice site-wide consistency. Buy anyway, nice! I like that and will start using it. Perhaps even soon if I can find my old 'blazer buttons' stuff.
I like the idea of site-wide consistency. Like right now, I don't quite like how the borders are set up on the image block...but it's easy to change and will change everywhere! I was also thinking I should add a link to the node's page in the thick/thinbox popup, like the imagestream page does.
Anyway, if you have a better idea of how to implement that, let me know...Because there is no "live preview" when using the wysiwyger.
I'm not really sure if this classifies as a "bug" or "error" but our mail getting junked. When Eve signed up for our random nets, GMail junked the registration confirmation. I found it, but her initial reaction was "it didn't work," which is true enough. I know we aren't exactly the biggest site on the internet, but it'd be nice if we weren't considered spam.
There seems to be no good way around that. We either need to find some place that will offload our mail delivery for us or get a static IP. And with the static IP you have to go to all the different places that blacklist IPs and get them to whitelist it, or at the least remove it from the black list. My attempt at using windows live mail servers was short lived. We got hit with some 'back scatter' spam (spam that ticks your server into sending an undeliverable message to someone, that of course include an original message which is spam.) So they canned us for breaking TOS. We don't seem to have any problems with the back scatter stuff unless we are forwarding the mail to another server. Another option is to lose the registration email and make everything set to admin approval.
I guess we can just leave it for now. I don't think we're really getting any users registering, it's just kind of annoying.
I know. So is the plight of those with dynamic ip addresses. I am looking at various SMTP relay servers that will let our server login and send email. There are a few free ones but anything useful cots money. Then you might as well have the cheapest webhosting you can find just for the email server access.
I had to log in to again today. After logging in, I get redirected to a blank page, url http://randomland.net/node?destination=node
Any idea what's up with that?
is it better now?
Yep, that's fixed. Now I have another one: http://randomland.net/admin throws me up a blank page. Do you get the same? Maybe one of our aliases died? I don't know...
Oh, I tried to update the forum to the new version via the admin panel. It did some stuff (said it successfully unpacked stuff) but then did nothing and still said it was out of date. When I tried to update it again, some tests failed, so I gave up. Oopsy. :-[
Oh my!
Since we are integrated into drupal I wouldn't try to do the automatic upgrade. A manual one should be doable though. As long as one doesn't delete the files for the drupal tie in or (obviously) the config file.
Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I remember that Drupal is like Linux -- everything easy is difficult! And the SMF installation touches Drupal; therefore, everything easy in the forum is likely difficult as well. I could probably make some sort of mathematical equation correlating Linux proximity to difficulty of use, but there is no point in wasting time doing that :)
If you took out all the drupal files (I think they reside in a folder inside the SMF install. You should be able to see where they are by looking at the setting for the SMF bridge in the drupal admin) and made a copy of the database (to be safe) and a copy of the config you might be able to try again. Or just copy the new files over the old ones. Though it would be nice to have semi-automatic updating working.
I think the reason Randomland has been so slow is the DNS servers. They are free and as such are not the fastest ones available. Using the gotdns address for the randomnets seems a little faster to resolve sometimes. You would think it would only be a short lived problem as you would cache the address for a while. Though the time set that you are allowed to hold on to that is quite short as we have a dynamic IP that does change every so often. A static IP would help... so would better name servers. I could try setting us up as our own name server but I think address changes will propagate slower that way, but what do I know (very little about the DNS system I will tell you.) Faster DNS servers might help with the issue as well. Both options cost money. If only there was a decent DNS host... I am willing to pay for it but the ones that charge, charge allot. And the free ones are a little sluggish (but workable.)
Sounds like an unfixable problem without a little moo-la...
But I found one that is fixable -- my geisha (http://drupal.org/project/geshifilter) is making a mess, seen here (http://randomland.net/tech/creating-a-drupal-module?page=0,3). It has something to do with the syntax-highlighting module I installed a while ago. If it's suppressing the errors for you, then:
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
* warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3 in /var/www/randomland/sites/all/modules/geshifilter/geshi/geshi.php on line 2132.
I'd look into it, but bed sounds more interesting.
We are the top google hit for " unrecognized character after (?< at offset 3" but there are other sites with the problem. I don't see anything obvious just by going to that line number in the file mentioned.
Darn. I might have to reinstall the module, although it actually seems to be working...just throwing lots and lots of warnings. At least we're #1 for something, eh?
I commented out a section of regular expressions (as per a suggestion I found on the internet) and it *fixed* it. It removed the highlighting of some php tags but the rest of it should be ok. Hope it gets fixed in their next release.
Was it a problem with an upgraded module or was it something else? If the input filters got messed up, that could have caused the problem. Either way, it's not a big deal, so long as we don't have 30 lines of warnings preceding our articles.
I even set php not to display error or warning. It seems to be ignoring that setting. I think the only thing that will no longer be highlighted are <? and <?php tags (and the closing ones.)
http://randomland.net/admin link is still broken for me...puts me to a blank page :(
This link (http://drupal.org/node/158043) might help, when one of us has the chance to get to it...
All better. PHP was running out of memory again (gallry2 did it.)
Woah. Thank you, Mr. Administrator!
No problem! I like making things work.
I'm not really sure where to post this, but we got a little spammage this morning. A post full of about 300 links with the word "bra" in them. Every single one had the word "bra" in it and one said "puffy nipples." Almost mildly humorous, but mostly just annoying. It got posted under "General Discussion" and I deleted it.
I haven't seen too much spam on here, really. About one every month, maybe. So, the question is: are they CAPTCHAs doing their job? It seems they are, for the most part, but occasionally some joker slips through.
I'm not sure its its our obscurity that keeping them at bay or the captas. The captcha thing keeps a log of how many 'people' it has rejected.
Hey yo, can we get randomland mail back up? Or is it kaput?
Oh snap! I forgot about that, sorry.
I'll do that today. Shouldn't take long as I have the old config files someplace.
Cool. I have moved most of my stuff away from the randomland accounts because it's been down. But every once in a while, it's nice to have around. Y'know, sending out official Randomland emails to the throngs of fans n' stuff.
Mail seems to be turned back on. Let me know if notice anything strange or wrong with it. No spam assassin at the moment.. but gmail does a good job of that. I think it should be impossible for it to relay mail for anything but randomland. So I hope we stay off spam lists.
I noticed that, thank you. I got a wee bit o' spam, but hopefully I don't get too much and the spam filters get smarter.
You are just forwarding email, right? I don't have a mailbox on your server? I don't want to fill up your hard drive with spam...
You do have a mailbox. I think it will take a long time to fill it all the way up though. I can impose a size limit on the mail boxes and possibly have it delete mail older then 4 months or something. Another option would be to set up dovecot and just have gmail connect and download the messages. This would allow gmail to delete them after it gets them. One final other option would be to disable local delivery for some accounts. But if outgoing mail fails for some reason then messages might get lost (they will still hang around in the spooler for a while.)
ok, well, we can mess with it if it ever becomes a problem. I suppose it doesn't matter until then. But I do suspect that 90% of the mail I get on the Randomland accounts is spam. And only 10% of the legitimate mail is even worth reading.
But hey, that's email for ya.
Yup. Another sad situation in the digital world. If the same were true for stoplights then the roads would be unusable. (I.E only 10% stopped when they were supposed to.)
I guess I will set up some email deletion thing to clear out anything older then X time. What should X be?
The most recent post on the front page (the black background microsoft one) has no date, attributed author or other basic information. What happened?
good catch. I have no idea, nor do I seem to be able to fix it by editing the authoring information. Strange...
So....I know why that post does not display the author, publish date/time, and comment link. It is because I created it as a
Page content type. I checked around on other
Pages and they exhibit the same behavior. I'm assuming this could be remedied by changing the template PHP file, but I could wrong.
Perhaps we should slim down our content types a bit.
- We have Book Page, Page, and Story which all seem intended for static text. We have Blog Entry which is also going to be static text, when you think about it.
- We have CCK Gallery and CCK Image which appear to never be used. Or do we use CCK Gallery? If we stick to the "put everything in your own gallery and tag it" camp, we ought to phase out CCK Gallery, I suppose. I think dynamic galleries (ie imagestream (http://randomland.net/imagestream)) are the way to go.1 (http://randomland.net/forums/index.php/topic,99.msg2003.html#msg2003)
- We have the Panel content type which, in my opinion, should phased out. If we want to do custom layouts, why not just write the code ourselves? This module was cool in concept but cumbersome in practice.
What say ye?
1 See this thread (http://randomland.net/forums/index.php/topic,99.msg2003.html#msg2003) about the issue with dynamic galleries and the "Exclude from ImageStream" flag
I never used any of the panel thing. I don't think so anyway. I installed it when I first started playing with drupal and didn't like it. From what I read, story is the best way to post most things. 'Page' is for larger bits that tend to stay in one place in the navigation of a site and don't need authoring info (like a FAQ or a directory or about page.) Pages probably should not show up in the blog roll/story board on the front page. Think of 'story' as articles and 'pages' as something that would list articles or something of the sort. I guess. Book pages are for multi-paged stories....... dang drupal people and naming things!
I do like the image stream. I was showing off some pics of you're new kitty and was reminded of how nicely usable, yet unfinished it feels.
I agree, I like it too, however unrefined it might be. It's a keeper! And, about the Story / Book Page / Page thing -- what format should we use for multipage articles?
We have things like the Francine tale (http://randomland.net/motors/francine). It is 6 separate pages stored in 6 separate nodes...each is quite long. Currently, I have (tried to) set it up so that the parent page is an index, "land page" if you will, for the Francine stories. Prev-Next navigation is present, but not user friendly...once you hit the last page, "next" takes you to an entirely different article (Blazer Stories maybe?).
On the other hand, we have that short Drupal Module tutorial (http://randomland.net/tech/creating-a-drupal-module) I created a while back. For some reason, I felt like splitting it up into separate pages. Which seems like a valid liberty to give an author. My page is stored in one node and uses the <!--pagebreak--> syntax. This is built-in and triggers the default Drupal paging URL format of nodename?page=0,x. Why 0,whatever? Beats me. It's a bit ugly, but it works ok. The bottom navigation could use some styling, but it is functional.
All that to say...what is your preferred paging method? I am gravitation toward pagebreak style; and thinking about looking into URL rewrites to implement a nodename/page/x type format. But how about you others -- multiple nodes? Single node with pagebreaks? A single page, no matter how long it might be? Cast a vote.
The book page/book is the one I know of for multi paged things. If that <!--pagebreak--> thing works well to split one node into multiple pages, then I like that better. Then we can do away with the books all together (I like them in idea but not navigation or formatting) and just use the story type with the <!--pagebreak--> for multiple pages. If you so like. Either way all I would like is a consistent way all over the site to ease CSS and other formatting burdens. And to make it all look/feel the same.
For those who didn't know, a module that we somewhat recently installed was causing a '500 Internal Server Error' to any automated web clients trying to index Randomland. After some investigation and liberal use of wget to see the php errors it the buggy module was identified and disabled. Now we can be seen by all once more.
Oops. "My bad."
Email seems to not be working again... I don't know why. I should be able t fix it soon though.
Dude, that sucks. I guess that's why I ended up moving my primary email accounts away from Randomland. :(
Gmail seems to be blocking the email forwards I set up. It seems to be a DNS issue with the crappy qwest provided domain showing up before the mail.randomland.net name. So our reverse lookup records look wrong and it rejects the mail. I changed the aliases so that mail is kept on the server now, it was being forwarded without local storage. You can set gmail to download the messages, but you will get them at a delay. Probably not an issue, just annoying (at least to me.) Another (crappy) option is to try and get postfix to log into the gmail servers to use them as a relay. Or set up thunderburd to run all the time and forward everything. But yeah. Poots. Google, again, hates us.
Poots, indeed :-\
Dude man,
Why doesn't Brad's blog entry show up in the sidebar on the main site? Drupal (6)'s admin menus drive me nuts. I found the blog admin (http://randomland.net/admin/build/menu-customize/menu-blogs) page, but I thought the links got added automatically.
And the link to Brad's "blog" is randomland.net/blogs/brad (http://randomland.net/blogs/brad). Everyone else's leaves out the blogs/ 'cuz that's how we roll. I just don't remember where these options are.
Is it time to sevenize yet? :-\
The blog menu was created by hand. Fixed it.
Ok, thanks. I guess I was thinking it was auto-generated. But it was that your "blog" is auto-generated (in as much as it doesn't really exist as anything concrete ther than a node, MAYBE a taxonomy term, and some URLs.
Anyway, thanks. Did you just edit the menu in that admin page I linked? For future notice...you know, when Randomland hits the big-time :)
Yup, that's all I did. And brads URL aliases were set up differently then all the rest. I think I like the /blog/name better then what we are using now, just /name. But one would have to go through all the URL aliases and find all the ones that need changed to fix that. Spleh. And Poot.
I recant all my previous pushes toward category segregation on Randomland. Randomland is a blog. They didn't call 'em that when we started, but that's what it is, by today's standards. When I get a moment of inspiration (if we concur), I think we should:
- replace category with flat taxonomy terms
- make sure those terms map to nice URLs (like /motors)
- toss everything written by an author into his "blog" and tag it with appropriate section tag (motors, rec, etc)
- standardize URL styles
- find and fix all them broken linkies
This is the age-old debate, so let me know what you think. One way or the other...and this is (ironically) posted in the wrong thread...
Its a better place for it then general discussion. Though its more likely to get read there.
I concur (con carne) I think that would be a better system then what we have going now. Not that its that much different from it. Mostly I just want consistency.
I just had lunch con carne. I consistently want consistency (it doesn't really matter though, since Randomland is usually in disarray). Oh yeah, and the images are still broken on the Tempo story :(
The forum had an incorrect time offset set. It is now set to display the system time just as it is. (and the system time is now being updated monthly by a time server)
Sorry, I thought it was correct before.
So if the time seems off for you now, go into your settings and adjust the time offset.
Dovecot seems to have crashed yesterday for some unknown reason. Its back up now.
Mail access has been restored!
Can I get email forwarding, or is that permanently broken? On a related note, I sent something to the webmaster account and have no idea how to check that anymore...(it used to forward to my gmail)
Email forwarding is dead. Qwest and gmail have conspired against the independent mail servers in the world and are refusing to accept outgoing mail from our servers. Short of getting qwest to give me the information to use them as a relay we are stuck.
But what you can do is set Gmail to download your email via pop3. That is what I have been doing anyway.
So, I uploaded a whole bunch of old, old pictures of the Tempo camping trip (tagged tempocamp (http://randomland.net/taxonomy_vtn/term/1026)). There are many more to upload, but it's a start. Eventually I will fix the image references in my old, old Tempo story. Those have been broken for a long time.
If you have any images from back then, feel free to toss 'em up there, too. Tagged tempocamp (http://randomland.net/taxonomy_vtn/term/1026), of course...which we can certainly rename.
You may have noticed a temporary outage for randomland. Qwest decided we had a virus and was blocking (all?) traffic. I don't know why it stopped, perhaps our IP changed and that was all that was needed. Either way, ddclient is still not doing a good job handling IP address changes quickly. The gateway router (DDwrt) does much better, but it can only do one sub domain.
I did notice, actually. I must be an addict. Thanks for fixing it...again. I don't know what I'd do without my Randomland fix
Have we a 'zilla on the Randomland server? I know we've talked about it before, but I don't remember if we ever did it...
Nope we don't. We can easy enough. I just got done installing 'zilla-3 here, recently. Also perhaps a 'git' hub install too... for the fortresses.
For the fortress? Whatever does that mean?!
Git does seem to be the new(er) shizzle. I'm not entirely sure why, but if we should migrate out SVN that way, I'm fine with that.
If I keep programming stuff, a 'zilla could help...though I haven't been in the practice of using one for over a year. Let's carve out thezilla and bugs on randomland.net...I guess we don't have to have thezilla, since that's probably not actually funny. :P
I thought it a good way to do the Dwarf Fortress succession games. Nice to have revisioning and all that (in case of too much !!FUN!!) And its just fun to say 'For the Fortress!' As in "Why do you need that cannon?" "For the glory of the Fortress! May it hold high the Upper Arm!"
I mostly just wanted to try out the git and see what was the up. It has more features then SVN, but also seems more archaic (like learning regular expressions. The only make any sense after you know everything about them, before, and up to that they are just gibberish.)
My gas subdomain is dead again. I get the default Apache page...
Sorry. Everything was still a gzip file. :) All better?
I was trying to make a tar-ball Saturday afternoon and apparently turned half the files on web-server into .gz.
Yes, all is well. So...you renamed files instead of zipping them? ???
I'm not sure. I opened one and it was no longer a text file. So I guess it zipped them in place and removed the original. Perhaps I used the wrong switch or something. I just wanted a zip of the whole www folder...
In the end I tared it all up and zipped that.
Reiterating the Bugzilla request. In the proper thread (I think) this time. We could keep it at bugs.randomland.net or something similar.
Edit: if anyone knows of a better, more full-featured, web-based programming project management tool we can slap on the server (free of charge), I'm up for that. I'm just looking for a way to track our pet projects and related issues.
Which brings me to my second bug. My gas subnet is not getting updated through DDClient (or whatever IP-updating service you're using). How do I fix this?
I like bugzilla well enough. I have tried a few others, but they are all rather lacking. There is also mantis. Not sure on its quality but I have seen a few sites with it in use.
The forum (http://forums.randomland.net) and forums (http://forums.randomland.net) subnets are not redirecting to the forum anymore. This has probably been broken for a long time, but should be restored.
Fixed. It will take an hour or so to start taking effect.
Cool, thanks
Actually, they still don't go to the right place...just a Drupal error page. Maybe we need to make some exceptions or something...
So, we have been getting a lot of spam on the Drupal side lately. I just deleted a couple dozen unapproved comments. And somehow, some spam-user comments even got published. It comes in waves, but it's been worse lately.
Any suggestions? I'd still like to move away from the increasingly antiquated D6.
I added a administrative approval requirement to user registration. I hope that stoops them.
Also, I agree that we should move on to better lands. That and fix the capcha module.
How are the D7 image modules these days? I've been using the Wordpress media lately stuff and find it adequate. The GUI is alright and it has tagging capabilities...search would need some work, but it's not like we've been utilizing image stuff (or really anything but the forums!) lately.But, that's all moot if we want to stick with the Druplars.
We are getting a lot of spam accounts signing up for Randomland-proper lately. Any suggestions on how to curb the madness?
Either turn off signups, update to new capcha stuff or just ignore them. With the new capcha stuff I think tha puts us pack in the D7 topic.
Which reminds me of my initiative to catalog (and unpublish) all lost content, as displayed by the internet wayback machine(s).
I don't really know what to do about our content management system. Drupal 6 is gross, but running. 7's good, but lacking features. WordPress is de-facto and mostly incompatible -- we'd be manually recreating articles yet again.
I guess the real question is: what do we want to do with Randomland in the long run? Dedicate it to outdoorsy woodsmanfun and craft projects? Despite its name, it could use a little direction :)
We could reduce it to a few blogs (I still don't like that word :/) and the forum. That seem to be what gets used the most, and the blogs should be the easiest to move over to a 7 install. We could either forsake the image system or use a decent 3rd party system for keeping everything or finish it. There might even be more options available now for images.
The old articles could be relegated to a 'archives' blog.
Beyond that I don't know. With some good tagging on all the articles organisation should come about on its own.
Edit: This might work for images. http://drupal.org/node/1224916
We could always dredge up the idea of having a separate image server. We could do a simple Tomcat/standalone system, yada, yada....but we aren't really doing anything with images these days, so nevermind that, for now. We aren't really doing anything with text content, either, for that matter.
Therefore, hitherto and henceforth, we must do stuff! I realize punking out of town makes this a little inconvenient. But we can, and should, slap up our individual adventures. There are some probably-cool marshland parks down here. Some are right in town, complete with boardwalks, mud, and tons of trees. And there are state parks, which are bound to have camping/hiking adventures at-the-ready (minus anything resembling a hill, or elevation change of more than about 20ft :().
Anyway. None of this belongs in this thread. But it's still true.
So.... I may have kinda killed all the thumbnail images on Randomland. Ever.
I uploaded a few pictures (for an awesome upcoming feature story...peek if you want), but no "ImageCache" previews were being creating. Thinking I was troubleshooting, I clicked the "flush" button on the ImageCache settings. I'm hoping they're rebuilding...but I'm not holding my breath.
Any idea how to track this down?
Edit: we might try updating the module to the latest, 6.x-2.0-rc1 (https://drupal.org/project/imagecache) (see bug report (https://drupal.org/node/999896))
Ok :-) I will look into it today. And on a similar note, I think the new drupal might be mature enough to move into. Or move the image stuff into.
Yeah, using the main site was really painful. Especially with all the spam crap-user related stuff I started to delete. What a pain!
Sooooo....all the thumbnails on the main site still seem to be broken :( And I definitely don't know how to fix it.
Would it be worth it to stand up some separate image server? (either homegrown or some existing software)
Definitely. Maybe a separate drupal install for managing it all or a dedicated image server.
This little idea (http://sumitbirla.com/2011/11/how-to-build-a-scalable-caching-resizing-image-server/) isn't bad. Just a PHP server making and serving static files. If I get some inspiration, I'll try out something like that.
...I've actually been making prototype of something similar using NodeJS (it returns a JSON-formatted directory listing of images). Maybe I'll merge those ideas.