Wow, what the heck just happened???

phil (admin) · December 19, 2012, 02:27:11 PM

I recently changed the site from a folder on my business site, to its own domain (jpthien.com).

REASON: While I felt having it in a folder on my business site provided decent compartmentalization (that has to be one of the longest words in the English language), the search engine crawlers kept mixing the content of the two together. So people searching for my business would see weird dust separators. And people looking for dust separators were finding some weird computer stuff.

So I decided to just separate it into a new domain.

I think the forum is okay. The mailing list needs addressing.

If you find other things that don't work, please post them here in this thread so I can clean it up.

Thank you for understanding.

phil (admin) · December 19, 2012, 10:29:44 PM

Attachments not appearing has been fixed.

Have a couple of links I found that need fixing. If anyone else finds anything, please let me know.

knappingdutchman · December 20, 2012, 10:30:54 AM

Hi Phil, the "discussion forum" link on http://www.jpthien.com, in the paragraph just underneath "Description of projects..." still refers to the old cgallery-link.

All the best with the new site/domain!

phil (admin) · December 20, 2012, 11:22:12 AM

Quote from: knappingdutchman on December 20, 2012, 10:30:54 AM
Hi Phil, the "discussion forum" link on http://www.jpthien.com, in the paragraph just underneath "Description of projects..." still refers to the old cgallery-link.

All the best with the new site/domain!

Thanks, just fixed it!

retired2 · December 22, 2012, 07:48:52 AM

Phil,

You may still be having some problems. Two evenings in a row, I've not been able to connect. Message says server not available. I don't know if it is due to heavier loads in the evening or some other problem. I'll let you know if it persists.

phil (admin) · December 22, 2012, 07:57:31 AM

Quote from: retired2 on December 22, 2012, 07:48:52 AM
Phil,

You may still be having some problems. Two evenings in a row, I've not been able to connect. Message says server not available. I don't know if it is due to heavier loads in the evening or some other problem. I'll let you know if it persists.

It may continue for a bit.

What I didn't know when I switched everything to an "addon domain" is that there is a 250MB/day limit on the domain data transfer. Apparently the main domain (the cgallery.com) has unlimited xfer, but any addon domain is limited to 250MB/day.

I think webmasters.com (my hosting company) is one of the few that caps addon domains. The reality is that I paid $10 for the addon domain name (through webmasters.com), I'm not transferring any more data than before, but now it isn't working. Hardly seems like a bargain.

So I'm going to move hosting outfits to somewhere more addon domain friendly.

knappingdutchman · January 10, 2013, 03:58:26 AM

Quote from: phil (admin) on December 19, 2012, 10:29:44 PM

Have a couple of links I found that need fixing. If anyone else finds anything, please let me know.

phil (admin) · January 10, 2013, 11:46:58 AM

Wow, thanks! I didn't even think of that. Fixing those will be a good project for me while watching the news tonight.

knappingdutchman · January 10, 2013, 01:12:29 PM

Actually, there may be more posts with links to fix... I just noticed the post immediately preceding the post url no. 30 points to also has a 'dead' link in it, yet it didn't came up in my search...

the url to that post is:
http://www.jpthien.com/smf/index.php?topic=652.msg3785#msg3785

Anyway, I'll report more links here if/when I come across them ;)

phil (admin) · January 10, 2013, 01:36:45 PM

Wow. I'm going to look into doing this in SQL instead of editing these manually.

phil (admin) · January 10, 2013, 10:08:44 PM

Follow-up: I have a way to do this via the SQL server, rather than manually. I will do it this weekend, so I can do a backup (and recover) in the event that I screw something up.

phil (admin) · January 12, 2013, 07:34:01 AM

Okay, did an update in SQL and got: 110 rows affected. ( Query took 0.0355 sec )

So 110 messages had links back to cgallery.com. I'm pretty thrilled I didn't try to edit those manually!

Again, thanks for the feedback, I had missed that entirely!

FuzzWuzz · January 13, 2013, 08:50:32 PM

Hi, Phil.
When going through the site as a newbie trying to learn, I believe there is one more broken link: http://www.jpthien.com/jpthien/cy.htm
It is in the info about the plans on the page: http://www.jpthien.com/smf/index.php?topic=137.0
Thank you.
FuzzWuzz

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