You may have noticed some changes…
So if you are reading this and thinking to yourself, wow the site looks different, that’s because it does, in fact, look different. Early (about 1 am) Saturday morning something happened to some of the data on the server, and by data I mean files that wordpress needs to, oh what’s the word…right, function. So if you tried to visit the site anytime between 1 am and 9 pm on Saturday the only thing you got was a blank white page. See how jacked stuff was? It couldn’t even generate a 404 page!
Luckily exsulis (when half drunk, no less!) discovered a quick fix. That being, essentially, reinstalling wordpress over the old files. Of course, wordpress installs with a number of subdirectories already built in, which had the unintended consequence of replacing some folders with the same folder, but with much less “stuffs.” Case in point, the comic archive is gone (again), but that’s not such a huge loss since it is backed up on my laptop. The uploads folder, on the other hand….well I don’t want to talk about that right now.
Gilgrim’s artwork still exists on the server, though, so that is very good. Visual type stuff won’t be up again until later tonight or tomorrow.
I guess one good thing to come out of this was that I was getting fed up with the theme we were using anyway, so I thought I’d try this one out…let me know what you think.
For all the (six) regular Normalinauts, I’ll ask that you scroll down and check out the post that went up 20 minutes before the site went down…
Let’s just say that it was a less then impressive way to “launch” a new feature of the site. If you’ve stumbled upon this and you’re looking for the interview with James Blaylock, just scroll on down friend.
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March 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hey now, I was still mostly sober when I came up with the fix but the 5, or 6 double shots after I fixed the site quicky reduced me to a slightly drucken state which may not have been conducive to playing 7. Though I do believe that I out drank everyone that night, and I wasn’t the first person to crash either
I did however curl up on a chair instead of say the couch. And little old me was the first one up that morning at a nice bright 7AM to which everyone else was still asleep, and being bored I munched on some food from the previous night, and decided that the vacant couch would indeed be a nice place to crash for another hour.
I do see that I have to recode the header, and fix the layout a little. I do have a backup of the uploads directory so I can place that back up, and the random pictures should all work again.