Forums Archive Index > Admin Announcements > From "Welcome To Our New Home Forum", carry over

Author: ope

Date: 31 Dec 2005 1:49 pm

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EDITPosted: 30 Dec 2005 2:08 pm est

Sorry for locking out the board mid day today.
But with the complaints about slow downs, double posting starting to happen and an error I saw myself that wasn't good...

The board was locked down for about 10 minutes between 2pm and 2:10pm so we could:
Back up.
Archive.
Prune the General Discussion forum for anything older than 90days.
And then do a little database maintenance.

Lets see if it gets anybetter.

-Admin.
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EDITPosted: 23 Dec 2005 7:20 pm est

http://www.opeonthenet.com/forum_archives.htm

A search engine for the archives is up and running.

To search the archives, one would use that page that the above link would bring you to.
This is also found off of the Home Page Menu:
"Forum Archives & SEARCH".

Again, this only searches the webpages and the archives, not the active forum. Since we haven't pruned any old posts yet, you will find the same thread on both the archives and the active forum.


To search the Active/Live forum, one would use the Search option on the live forum, at the top of each page of the Forum.

Happy Holidays,
The Mods and Admins...


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EDITPosted: 21 Dec 2005 11:10 am est

A possibility just occurred to me this morning....

If you are still having to login twice, or it happens once in a while,
I would guess it maybe because you are using a bookmark made from the temporary link given out on the day we moved, that was the IP address... "http://64.130.14.114/" .

Please delete that bookmark, type in or click on this link..
http://www.opeonthenet.com/

Bookmark that.

After you log in you can always just bookmark the forum index page if you would like. But going in through the home page gives us noticeable traffic, which is a good thing.


All things are now supposed to be relative to the domain name..
opeonthenet.com , not the IP address. Last night, all behind the scenes setting were changed from the IP address to the domain name, since the domain name finally caught up to us.


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EDIT:Posted: 20 Dec 2005 07:41 pm est

At this point try this..

logout, clear your cookies, clear your cash.

Start at the home page.

Click on the link to come here.

You should see your address bar saying..
http://www.opeonthenet.com/phpBB2/...

Now login.

You should now STILL see..

http://www.opeonthenet.com/phpBB2...

Instead of the IP address like last night.

The double logins should be gone.


What was happing was that when you came in through the front page, which you got to by the domain name. When you got to the forum via the front page, the domain name was still in the address bar, but when you are granted access to the forum ( logged in), the forum WAS untill now, setup withe IP address. If it was setup with the domain name say last night, for those who's ISP didn't have the DNS change yet, they would not have gotten into the forum.

But I'm sure by now all are getting here via the domain name, from what can tell, so I'm going through it all and changing the settings over to use the domain name instead of the IP address.

You shouldn't have the login in twice issue any more.
I saw it too, when I came by the domain name, via the front page.
Sorry for the little inconvience, but I couldn't avoid it. It was the only way to keep complete access.



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Dec 17th

Well if your reading this you know that our temporary link is:

http://64.130.14.114/

Actually that's our real IP address and will always work.
As soon as the DNS updates work, www.opeonthenet.com will bring you here, and not the old forum.
Probably no later than Tuesday 12/20/05, www.opeonthenet.com should be bringing you to the home page.

As of now beside some of the behind the scenes items that make it better... you can now:

Upload avatars !
It works.
They must be smaller than 15Kb in size, and 250p W x 300p H.
That's pretty big for an avatar. Again at worst, if you need help, member "ramit" has been helping with the avatars, PM him.

Browse and select from Avatar Galleries !
We've preloaded some in there already.
It works. If you want to donate something for the Avatar gallery, please PM member "ramit", again he's been helping with the avatars.

We tried to capture present avatars, and loaded them in a Gallery marked "X-Reserved". The last gallery (the only reason the X is there).
But all your settings should still be the same and your linked avatar should still be working.

Please post any questions about the move below.
Eventually this particular forum about the move will be deleted, once we are all settled in.

Happy Holidays,
Admins and Moderators