Server Updates

[Alexander78]

This post (from this very thread) explains why pages are loading slowly at the moment.

I'm not one of the tech experts, so I don't know why the indexing doesn't work properly at the moment - but I wouldn't be surprised if GED and Squid came along and said that was also happening because the search index hasn't been completely rebuilt yet.

I missed this post or forgot about it, you are absolutely right. Thanks for the reply.

When you post, vBulletin does a number of processes so that everything is consistent. It hasn't been doing that, possibly because one or another process has been timing out.

Although this answer was not intended for me, but still thanks for the explanation.

[La♔De♔Da♔Brigadier Graham]

I really appreciate the V-bulletin message when the site is down.

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Thanks for your work and passion for this site.

[Squid]

No he means literally when we restart php-fpm on the server. To make changes to the configuration of program the program needs to be stopped the changed made and then restarted. The configuration file has been changed but php cannot be stopped and restarted until the search index is rebuilt. We also want to move to php 7.1 as well for the wiki upgrade, but that is a separate change.

[Leonardo]

No he means literally when we restart php-fpm on the server. To make changes to the configuration of program the program needs to be stopped the changed made and then restarted. The configuration file has been changed but php cannot be stopped and restarted until the search index is rebuilt. We also want to move to php 7.1 as well for the wiki upgrade, but that is a separate change.

I see. Well, it seems I misunderstood what GED meant by saying "next php restart".

Also, moving to php 7.1 is a good thing too.

[GrnEyedDvl]

A restart of php services is required to make the changes I made to the config file take affect. But if I stop and start php now then the current index that is running will die and will have to be started over.

[century x]

To the young ones in this thread.
Everything costs money.
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

Ah well, good time to take a little vacation ei?

To the young ones in this thread.
Everything costs money.
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

Fail to see relevance or help this affords to 'the young ones'. At best it would be fruitful to preach patience, but I doubt these technical issues are a matter of finance.

[Daruwind]

Um guys, not sure it is related..I was adding comment on http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...8#post15770848
and basically my comment and another comment from Mongrel (both are from Today) vanished....?

On political mudpit, I can see the last comment on thread Brexit is mine with correct time..

[makanyane]

Um guys, not sure it is related..I was adding comment on http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...8#post15770848
and basically my comment and another comment from Mongrel (both are from Today) vanished....?

On political mudpit, I can see the last comment on thread Brexit is mine with correct time..

I don't think they've vanished, it just doesn't seem possible to get to the last page in that thread***

That behaviour was happening earlier on other threads - could it still be part of the re-indexing issue?


***For that particular thread the forum bug feels like a metaphor for the whole situation

[GrnEyedDvl]

I think I successfully killed the index. We are going to try to move to Sphinxsearch instead. I have been tweaking some of the config settings, if you get a 500 error then you managed to call a page view in the exact 3 seconds I was restarting a service. Sorry about that. I will try to get page load times down to something reasonable before we do too much else.

[Skotos of Sinope]

It seems I'm unable to view PMs, whether that's related or not.

[La♔De♔Da♔Brigadier Graham]

It seems I'm unable to view PMs, whether that's related or not.

Same here, they aren't showing in the Inbox nor sent messages.

Curiously enough I'm having a sense of Déjà vu.

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[Alwyn]

If there is a blank space where your inbox for PMs should be, you are not alone - I have the same issue. While Technical Staff investigate this, it's possible to see new, unread PMs by selecting My Account and following the link to an unread PM from User Notifications. However, this doesn't make it possible to see PMs which have been read - there's still a blank space where the inbox would normally be.

Thank you to Technical Staff for your hard work and to everyone for your patience!

[GrnEyedDvl]

Mine are working normally. Does it do that on every theme?

[Gigantus]

Yup, PMs are back up - you mentioned in the other thread you upgraded to php 7.1, maybe that?

[GrnEyedDvl]

Yup, PMs are back up - you mentioned in the other thread you upgraded to php 7.1, maybe that?

No, I updated php hours after I posted that. I never had a problem with PMs, but I didnt sign on yesterday due to the latest blizzard in Denver.

[♔Greek Strategos♔]

I don't have any issues with PMs atm. Only the extreme slowness and still a few broken pics. Using the latest Firefox and the TWCenter skin.

[Axalon]

Whenever I try to click on my user-name "Axalon" or "My Profile" I get "HTTP ERROR 500" and a blank... ("My Account" and "Notifications" seems to work...)

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?43977-Axalon

I am using chrome btw...

- A

[Alexander78]

Whenever I try to click on my user-name "Axalon" or "My Profile" I get "HTTP ERROR 500" and a blank... ("My Account" and "Notifications" seems to work...)

Same problem. Firefox.