Homepage is borked?

[Random]

I was trolling around on these fine nets when typed in the URL for this lovely website and found this:

I tried it in every browser and got the same error. Eventually I used a bookmark to hop into the actual forum. Dunno if this is just maintenance or what. Checked with a few other users and heard the same problem.

 

[Infinitron]

Yep. DarkUnderlord

 

[Kane]

 

[Absalom]

An actual legitimate problem, in site feedback?

I have this problem too

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

An actual legitimate problem, in site feedback?

Impossible.

 

[Kane]

 

[EG]

My God . . . RPGCodex is going the same way as FanMadeFallout did . . .

 

[Orma]

Wut. So only the forums are functional at the moment?

 

[gromit]

Wut. So only the forums are functional at the moment?

Anything that doesn't use the root index.php should be good. What else this includes, I do not know.

 

[Chinese Jetpilot]

DU is just integrating the NSA's spyware.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Meanwhile FretRider is on RPGWatch talking about how the whole site is down and blasting the Codex. Popcorn shares are up.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12045&page=143

Oh, and I also am having this issue with the homepage.

 

[Whisky]

Main page is back up.

Tacticular Cancer is still down though.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Yeah, working on it. Making a few changes on the back-end and digging out some broken stuff.

 

[Taluntain]

So DU... where's the switch for the front page?

 

[evdk]

Someone is going to be switched over this?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

So DU... where's the switch for the front page?

I flicked a HTML index up because the PHP was bugging out with errors (even with no actual php in the file). Deleted it now.

 

[Taluntain]

Yea; I tried putting it back but it came up with that Unhandled Exception 8 error so I didn't know if this was the proper index or some old one. Is this something due to what you've changed? We're on Apache now until I can get LS working properly again.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Yeah, SCRIPT_URI is no longer available - but I just changed the code to not use it though. Everything else seems ok.

Oh yeah and mb_split is missing, fixed TCancer and the Codex to not use that either.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Yeah, working on it. Making a few changes on the back-end and digging out some broken stuff.

Would it not have been prudent to do this locally first and test before deploying the changes to production?

jk DU, I totally approve of editing the code of a live website with an average ~500 concurrent users. Bonus points if you do it straight through cPanel's online file manager editor thing.

 

[Taluntain]

Yeah, SCRIPT_URI is no longer available - but I just changed the code to not use it though. Everything else seems ok.

Oh yeah and mb_split is missing, fixed TCancer and the Codex to not use that either.

OK, I'll let you know when we're back on the "old" configuration.

mbstring will be making a comeback, I have no idea why they removed it.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Yeah, working on it. Making a few changes on the back-end and digging out some broken stuff.

Would it not have been prudent to do this locally first and test before deploying the changes to production?

The whole site going down was completely unrelated.

 

[SCO]

Ban Orgasm in all dimensions of space time.

 

[Chinese Jetpilot]

Don't give in to terrorists. Time for DU to implement his own :patriot: Act

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

DarkUnderlord There appears to be a strange min width on the main page now. If the horizontal is roughly less than 1500 px wide, I get a scroll bar instead of the middle area resizing. I don't think it used to be this way. Or I guess it could be because of the Expeditions Review banner.

Oh, and also, the GOG, Donate banner section is misaligned in the forum view compared to the home page.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Or I guess it could be because of the Expeditions Review banner.

This.

Oh, and also, the GOG, Donate banner section is misaligned in the forum view compared to the home page.

What?