Test Test

This is just a test to see what happens.

So what's going on?

Many of us couldn't access the site as it appears our bookmarks... www.westcoastfieros.com are no longer valid.

Why is it necessary to now change these bookmarks to westcoastfieros.com to access the site?

People who don't get and/or read the chat emails (and see the discussion on this) will just figure the club's website is dead when their bookmarks no longer work.

Edited by Patrick

Capt Fiero wrote: Well Patrick when you figure it out you can let everyone else know.

Were you aware that people haven't been able to access the club's website for the last three days?

I bring it to your attention, and mention what I discovered (trying to be helpful), and I get a smartass comment like that?

Real nice, Dave.

Edited by Patrick

The IP that I was given from Graeme won't work even by typing in the ip directly. So I don't know what the issue is. I have spoke to Graeme about it, don't know what the issue is.

This whole thing started when the Graeme told me that the site needed to be moved to a cheaper server. I said sure, he gave me a new IP to point our domain traffic too and then poof. We tried back and forth several time to get it right. He feels its a problem with our host 1and1 they feel its a problem with his configuration.

In the end, neither Graeme nor I have the time to fiddle with this constantly. Just an FYI, the club has never paid or used club dues for the forum. Graeme donates his time for that and his personal server, I donate my time for domain management as well as email stuff. (members email accounts and mailing list subscriptions)

       If this can not be resolved, it may be the death of the forum. I'll ask Graeme before that happens to save a backup copy of the clubs front pages and move them to the club funded server, so the site will still be here, just no more forum. If someone else has substantial experience with this, and wants to take on it all, feel free to come forward and we will see what you can do.   Maybe we should just have the forum link point to the Facebook page. I don't know what will be the best option.

        John we are doing what we can with what we have to work with.   However thanks for your Helpful reply.

David

Thanks Dave for your response, I thought the club fund paid the forum, but then it isn't.
We can't let the club forum DIE, we should have enough money to keep it running, eh !
Glenn read out club funds and it was lots in there, so lets pay for the club forum, what's wrong with that ?

Actually I'm getting to old for this, I'm out

Edited by Car-2-Lo

The only problem here is that the www subdomain is not pointed to this server. If you don't use www before the domain westcoastfieros.com then it works. It's an issue with 1and1 (the domain registrar) as for some reason pointing the domain to this server does not point the www subdomain. It's bizarre.

Other than that, everything is working fine.

Graeme wrote: I've made some changes in the 1and1 admin panel, they make take a day to take effect but it should resolve the issue.

Thanks Graeme. Accessing the forum works fine with the old bookmarks now (although I notice there's still a "500-Internal server error" when trying to upload an image).

IMO, without a forum the club would find it difficult to survive. The forum is an integral part of West Coast Fieros.

 

The forum isn't going anywhere, so nobody needs to worry at this time.

As for migrating.. I wouldn't count on it. This forum software is almost 8 years old now and runs on an access database.

Uploading eh.. I'll look into it.


Edited by Graeme

Graeme the club server has the option of being a Linux box or a Windows Box, we are allowed to switch once a year. The Windows box supports almost all major coding languages.

           Is it even possible to export the user database from this forum. (name and passwords) build a new forum located on the club sponsored server, that is more up to date. Then import the user information. I don't know about threads or other data.

           Oh I think I figured out why the club forum stopped emailing out information. If when Damian took away my Admin rights here, he went into the forum admin menu and mucked around with the email settings there, that would have killed it. IIRC it was using a club@westcoastfieros email account to send its mail. If he changed anything in regards to the mail server settings it would all be broken.   If you want to put me back on the admin for the board I can take a look and see.

       David

Cheese wrote: We'd also probably lose attachments and pictures...

Aw man, it would be a real shame to lose all the images.  Not only would it be sad from a historical point of view, but it would also totally ruin most of the tech and build threads. They'd be rendered completely useless.

If the forum database is migrated at some point, and if there's a way to do it, images posted in forum threads really need to be saved!