Server Updates

**Lifthrasir** · April 01, 2019, 12:25 PM

**Morticia Iunia Bruti** · April 01, 2019, 12:32 PM

**Love Mountain** · April 01, 2019, 04:56 PM

Lots of thanks for your efforts guys. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your lives to maintain the site.

**century x** · April 01, 2019, 05:28 PM

Hello,
Innocent question.
Will this forum be switched over to "HTTPS" ?

**Squid** · April 01, 2019, 08:09 PM

I tried to get the vb upgrade done and it didn't work, so I backed the changes out. If GED can't get it to work I'll try again tomorrow after seeing if I can figure out what I messed up.

**Squid** · April 01, 2019, 08:11 PM

GED and I have talked about implementing that but not until the site is stable after the upgrade and we deal with any lingering issues.

**Skotos of Sinope** · April 01, 2019, 10:02 PM

Well whatever you did, pics are now working again.

**GrnEyedDvl** · April 01, 2019, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by century x

Hello,
Innocent question.
Will this forum be switched over to "HTTPS" ?

Read this
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post15764567

Just to throw it out there I have 90% of the setup done for SSL. The other 10% is a bit of work as I have to check every single image posted in img tags on the site and either grab it through a proxy or rewrite every entry in the database to point to https for whatever site it was pulled from or we will have a mixed site. Some of the content will be ssl enabled, and some not. Chrome doesn't like that and will still say the site is "insecure" if content is mixed.

I hate google.

Originally Posted by Skotos of Sinope

Well whatever you did, pics are now working again.

That one actually surprises me, but its a good surprise. I thought the server was still loading the wrong version of imagemagick which is what controls that.

**Derc** · April 02, 2019, 03:31 AM

That was one helluva april fools' prank. Great work.

**AnthoniusII** · April 02, 2019, 05:34 AM

Still edit and merge local moderation commands do not work.

**King Athelstan** · April 02, 2019, 06:02 AM

If by edit you're referring to the page continously loading, you can safely click away, the changes will still be saved, in my case at least

**Caillagh de Bodemloze** · April 02, 2019, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by AnthoniusII

Still edit and merge local moderation commands do not work.

I imagine this is because of what Squid posted here - the vb upgrade didn't work. Squid and GED are working on it, though, and the upgrade will be done as soon as possible.

**GrnEyedDvl** · April 02, 2019, 10:58 PM

Well its been a day for problems.

1. Comcast had a fiber optic cut today that took us down for about 7 hours.
2. Sometime in the middle of that, the php-fpm service decided to change how it loaded. It was loading the wrong config file. Not sure if an update last night caused that or not.
3. The wiki user is broken again. Not sure what is going on there yet either.
4. A backup process ran out of control and filled the drive partition the site resides on.

I am clearing up some space now. The only good news is that when I fixed the php processes (for the nth time this week) I dug a bit deeper into it and got it optimized a bit better. Seems to be running fairly well, if we can only get a handle on the vBulletin updates and the issues Squid had with it. I haven't talked to him much today, we both had meetings all day.

**La♔De♔Da♔Brigadier Graham** · April 02, 2019, 11:06 PM

Updated appreciated guv!

**Kilo11** · April 03, 2019, 12:01 AM

Update appreciated indeed, but more than that, all of your hard work and commitment! We wouldn't all be here without you and Squid (and the other techies who I don't know of, but are surely working in the shadows)!

**AnthoniusII** · April 03, 2019, 05:34 AM

Post buttons still not work properly.
Moderation buttons still not work properly.
Many lines such:

Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_bbcode.php on line 2958

or

Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_block.php on line 442

Often a white screen with the first line format, before Forums index load.
End of report.

**century x** · April 03, 2019, 06:31 AM

I cannot quote....
Thanks for the update on the servers. I was getting concerned last night when the site was not coming up.
Also, good news that you do have plans to switch it over to HTTPS eventually.

**Squid** · April 03, 2019, 01:59 PM

This is consistent with running the old version of vbulletin. We are in the process of upgrading vbulletin to deal with these, and related, issues caused by the OS upgrade, which was long overdue.

**Skotos of Sinope** · April 03, 2019, 02:27 PM

Yay! Once again, thanks Squid for all the hard work.

One issue I just noticed today is that I'm unable to view the last page of a thread in certain forums. You click on the last one, and it takes you to the second-to-last one.