NG'23: report bugs here !!

[Birna Rørslett]

hi all,

it's about time to collect -- and investigate --  various problems that might remain after the move to the new server.

Concomitantly with the move, I did a major database upgrade to ensure the DB was brought up to the same version as our forum software, which is SMF 2.0.19. The main reason why the gallery feature ceased to work on the old server was the DB got out of sync with the forum software updates. While testing the new server, I got the gallery working correctly, but alas only for a restricted time before the cyber gremlins introduced themselves and crashed the forum. I spent an entire day chasing after them through thousands of lines of PHP code until I declared being defeated . Thus I had to make a new, clean install *without* gallery, then move the DB over. This means the DB tables showing the gallery entries still are present, but there is no gallery installed to provide us the information.

I already have noticed, from the error logs, that some users have a failed post notification. Probably this occurs because the inner workings of our SMF use outdated information from the DB. If you encounter this issue and had notification working properly before, please set up notification gain.

Any other problem? please post in this thread.

[Akira]

Since the move, I've posted comments on some threads and images, started a thread with images and looked for a thread using the search function.  I haven't encountered any problem so far.

Again, I appreciate your efforts for the move!

[Birna Rørslett]

Notification works -- just tested.

However, for those using that feature in the "old" forum, you have to unnotify in your Profile first!! do that and just to be on the safe side, log out, then in again and click the notification checkbox (in your profile under Notifications). The reason is of course that unless you do this reset, the forum software uses the old paths and they are now changed. Thus the admin error logs fills up instead with messages about rejected notifications

[Birna Rørslett]

Gallery is back. See the separate thread.

We haven't recoved the old site's niceties of showing user names in colour by their groups. Our esteemed Test Boffin, Andrea, worked out the neccessary modifications in the code for these changes, but that was done for the old server with old forum software. For the new server, I had to do a clean install to a newer version, thus the old modifications were lost. She is no longer active on NG, caring for our 'sister' site https://ultravioletphotography.com instead, but left detailed notes of the changes taken. If I'm daring enough I'll try to incorporate these later. Just have to brush up my somewhat rusty command of PHP

[Birna Rørslett]

The familiar yellow 'favicon' is back .... You might need to purge the browser's cache for nikongear.net, then log in again for this to happen though.

I improved the redirection post for anyone using the old URL too. Thus expect visitors to trickle back

[Birna Rørslett]

It is possible to get the error message 'Session verification failed Please log out again'.  However there might not be any logout option available.

The solution is to use the browser's back arrow which brings back the prior page. Log out, then log in again.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

[Birna Rørslett]

All colours showing member groups and member/supporter status are back

Hopefully, no additional gremlins saw their opportunity to creep in concomitantly with the updates.

[Birna Rørslett]

There is a small bug in member's Profile. The option to set 'My Gallery' exists, but will end up with the wrong URL. The reason is I kept the old orginal folder structure for the gallery files and attchments.

I might move over the structure if nothing untoward happens with our Gallery. However, this has medium-to-low priority at present.

[Øivind Tøien]

It looks like old links in other fora (no longer available to be edited) to to posts in our forum are still broken as seen from my location, for instance this one that I posted a year ago in the CN forum:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/842147-powering-a-nikon-d5500-from-12-v-or-actually-135-v/?p=12165982
Broken link:
https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=8114.msg133653#msg133653

1. Is this still expected to occur, and I assume this is a temporary situation?

It is possible that Alaska DNS servers are slow to update, however the link points to the old main URL "https://nikongear.net..." which is what I assume the name server would know about and also part of what a currently valid corrected link would look like:
https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=8114.msg133653#msg133653

2. Also important, when a new link is posted in a forum like this last one, if/when the old type of links become active again, will a newly posted last version of the link (with .../revival23/...) still be valid?

Links to posts within our own forum also appears broken at the moment as seen from my location, like in this post:
https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=1867.msg177575#msg177575
Broken link in post:
https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=1992.msg177426#msg177426


Edit: the URLs of internal NG links are redacted. We have returned to using the old base URL, i.e. nikongear/revival

[Birna Rørslett]

I'm aware of the situation, and as soon as we are certain all functionality is OK, I might change back to /revival.

However it was necessary to start in a different folder as I had to do a clean fresh install of the site software.

The problem with internal redirections is of course the danger of circular references, so we are on a risky ride.

[Birna Rørslett]

As a temporary fix, let me know the broken internal links and I'll rewrite these. Just did that with the ones you mentioned.

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks Birna for fixing those links. Others can be found by doing a search for 'https://nikongear.net/revival/' from the home page.

A problem is of course those links from fora external to Nikongear, which we have no control over as the fora typically do not allow editing of old posts. However if reverting to revival will finally happen it should not be a problem (for long).

My second question was if new links that include https://nikongear.net/revival23/ would still work if our site reverts back to https://nikongear.net/revival/ . If not, it would perhaps be a good idea to hold out posting such links from external fora until things stabilize here.

[Birna Rørslett]

Well, links go stale all over the internet all the time. On our side it is easy to fix this, though. At least the external links aren't dead, just incorrect.

Reverting to /revival will necessitate a thorough update of our database to replace the URL references contained there. It is doable I'd guess however a major undertaking. Any SQL script writers, please step forward.

[janvaran]

Any SQL script writers, please step forward.

Which database tech is in use for the backend storage?
I might help, but currently on vacation, I have to wait a week.

[Bent Hjarbo]

Just managed to send an email to Birna
,and it works again