Author Topic: Please report any CathInfo problems! (Read 2752 times)

Matthew · « **on:** April 07, 2016, 02:25:40 PM »

A day and a half ago, I discovered that PMs weren't working, so I hurried up and fixed that.
Yesterday, I discovered that Registration wasn't working, and I fixed it.
Today, someone reported that SEARCH wasn't working, and I just fixed that.

I haven't had time to scour the whole site, testing everything. So if you find anything non-functional, PLEASE report it!

I already know about certain "tags" like [img], [url], and regular text links being invisible. I am working on that problem already.

This is all due to the recent move, and/or the upgrade to PHP 5.5.

Sorry for the inconveniences --

Matthew

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2016, 03:37:31 PM »

Quote from: Incredulous

I had the impression it was a pretty seamless transfer. :thinking:

It's that last 2% that gets you.

The problems were mostly because some database fields got a default value of "none" rather than the official NULL which apparently makes a difference. This little glitch disabled everything from new registrations to PMs.

And then there are other problems (some fixed, some ongoing) because we upgraded beyond PHP 5.5. This version of PHP dropped a few commands that CathInfo was using A LOT. This was the cause of the search function not working before today (when I just fixed it).

A few more problems were related to files (avatars, and attachments to various posts). My FTP program was set to treat those files as text files! So naturally they weren't working. I had to re-download them all, and then upload them all again. Now both are working.

I looked over the "missing files" section of my website stats, making sure everything looked OK. While I was in there, I noticed a lot of apple icons missing. So I created some icons for "Apple touch" -- any Apple users out there? Do you see a custom icon for CathInfo now?

magdalena · « **Reply #2 on:** April 07, 2016, 04:57:53 PM »

Regarding images and youtubes.... Will old posts that utilized

and [youtube] [/youtube] embed features reappear with their images and youtubes in tact?

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** April 07, 2016, 05:42:15 PM »

Quote from: magdalena

Regarding images and youtubes.... Will old posts that utilized and [youtube] [/youtube] embed features reappear with their images and youtubes in tact?

Yes, they all will.

No permanent damage is being done. These tags are all just "hidden for now", as it were.

For now, you can "quote" a post you want to get a certain website link from, and you'll see the link is still there.

magdalena · « **Reply #4 on:** April 07, 2016, 05:55:56 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: magdalena
Regarding images and youtubes.... Will old posts that utilized and [youtube] [/youtube] embed features reappear with their images and youtubes in tact?

Yes, they all will.

No permanent damage is being done. These tags are all just "hidden for now", as it were.

For now, you can "quote" a post you want to get a certain website link from, and you'll see the link is still there.

That's good as I have put a lot of time and work into some of my threads in the sacred section utilizing music and images.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2016, 01:26:01 AM »

Cannot post YouTube's and any links. They show up on the draft and
disappears from the Post. Even tried typing them in and the same
problems of disappearance. See the temple of baal thread in Fighting
errors of the modern world.

Matthew · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2016, 01:39:58 AM »

I was busy all day transferring a handful of websites to the new server and working out any issues that arose with those sites.

I didn't even get 10 minutes to look at the URL/image problem (which problem I am well aware of at this point), and this busy-ness is quite frustrating for me. Hopefully tomorrow I can look at it.

Thank you for your continued patience in this matter --

Matthew

magdalena · « **Reply #7 on:** April 08, 2016, 05:12:54 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

I was busy all day transferring a handful of websites to the new server and working out any issues that arose with those sites.

I didn't even get 10 minutes to look at the URL/image problem (which problem I am well aware of at this point), and this busy-ness is quite frustrating for me. Hopefully tomorrow I can look at it.

Thank you for your continued patience in this matter --

Matthew

No, thank YOU for keeping your forum afloat.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #8 on:** April 08, 2016, 06:31:48 PM »

Quote from: magdalena

Quote from: Matthew
I was busy all day transferring a handful of websites to the new server and working out any issues that arose with those sites.

I didn't even get 10 minutes to look at the URL/image problem (which problem I am well aware of at this point), and this busy-ness is quite frustrating for me. Hopefully tomorrow I can look at it.

Thank you for your continued patience in this matter --

Matthew

No, thank YOU for keeping your forum afloat.

No, thank YOU for appreciating all Matthew's hard work.

magdalena · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2016, 07:58:06 PM »

Well, one could hardly imagine the loss of sleep this entails.
:sad:

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #10 on:** April 08, 2016, 11:36:22 PM »

I tried to start a new post 5x and it only worked once. Tried on 2 different computers with 2 different connections. Weird

Matthew · « **Reply #11 on:** April 08, 2016, 11:46:13 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis

I tried to start a new post 5x and it only worked once. Tried on 2 different computers with 2 different connections. Weird

People have been posting new posts all day... new topics even. That is indeed strange.

magdalena · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2016, 12:11:39 AM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: Pax Vobis
I tried to start a new post 5x and it only worked once. Tried on 2 different computers with 2 different connections. Weird

People have been posting new posts all day... new topics even. That is indeed strange.

I tried posting a link to Pascendi in the library section but to no avail. I'm sure the kinks will get ironed out.

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius10/p10pasce.htm

magdalena · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2016, 09:31:47 AM »

Matthew, I have a friend who keeps getting a Google "crawl error" whenever she attempts to access CathInfo for the last couple weeks, but not for other sites apparently. I told her to contact you via email. Do you have any other ideas regarding this? Perhaps others have had the same problem as it could be related to the cyber attacks.

Domitilla · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2016, 01:46:34 PM »

Wow! After one week, I am finally able to access CathInfo again.

Matthew, I am very grateful that you're still here ....