Welcome to our new server. :D
UPDATE: Some folks might be having login issues. Clear your browser cache (temporary internet files) and cookies, then retry your login. If that doesn't work, send us an email at register.sailfar@gmail.com and we'll see what we can do. :)
Some notes:
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Everything should be as it was before, pretty much, as regards any posts you have made.
I still have to figure out the Attachments issue; it might be best to wait until I can figure that out before adding any attachments to your posts; I think any attachments made in the meanwhile could get lost when I put the old ones back in place.
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The Gallery now requires a separate login.
1) If you have an album / pictures on there from before and your login doesn't work, send me a PM and I will reset your password.
2) For anyone who wants to start a new Album there, you can go ahead and register for one. We'll use a 'membership by approval only' system there also, so send me a PM and let me know when you've registered, and I'll approve it.
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Don't worry about registering there, that's something we may or may not use down the road.
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Let me know in this thread if you spy any oddness, other than missing attachments/avatars.
Welcome back, and Have Fun!
Woo Hoo!
I am going to poke around and look, but I am very glad the 'jump' worked!
THanks Kurt
Hip Hip Horray!!
Thanks big guy, you did good.
Wow-I was beginning to suffer withdrawal symtoms-grim
Grog for the hard work mate!
Congrats!
I'm with Charlie, sweaty palms, rolling stomac, ga-nashing of the teeth.
Bravo, maestro! But of course we expect nothing less. And, I've never been here with a functioning gallery. BONUS!!
its back up!
Looking good so far Capn. :
Looking great thanks for the work
Whewwwwwwwwwwwwww made it!!
thx Craig!
now back to business...
FWIW,
I cannot log onto the gallery using my sf credentials.
Not sure that's a bad thing, tho...hahaha ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Nor can I log in to the gallery. I can't recall if the password is the same and I can't use the laptop anchored out here.
Every thing else seems fine.
Back aboard. Thanks Capt ! Nice to see the gallery workin too. GROG ;)
Hey - Capt, I can see the gallery and my very old pics but haven't a clue what I used back then to log in. Grog to ya for hanging in & getting it to work....
jim
Sent new Gallery passwords via PM to all who have reported login troubles. :)
Thanks Captain, worked like a charm!
Not sure what you did, but I could not log in before and now I can.
Thanks,
Made some changes @ the server, and where the re-animated Gallery was at an address like:
http://sailfar.net/newgallery/....
it is now the same as it used to be prior to re-animation, like so:
http://sailfar.net/gallery/...
So now, in posts from back before which used that format URL, those posts will link into the newly re-animated Gallery. :)
So glad to see the pictures back!
I really did not want to have to go back and search all the posts to change the links... :P
Thanks again Captain. Have your 150th grog on me... ;)
Works great Capn - Thanks
jim
Shall I search this thread.. I forget how to upload photos ???
Quote from: Iceman on December 16, 2009, 06:43:14 PM
Shall I search this thread.. I forget how to upload photos ???
Take a look at this thread;
Posting Pictures (http://sailfar.net/forum/index.php?topic=49.0)
If you are still not clear, post your question and we will get you going.
Ill check it out. Just trying to post a new album, with the new boat
Do I need to update my username and password for the new website?
Update - 7/13 - Reverted to our 'regular' theme for the time being. Updates still coming soon, so the rest applies. :)
You may notice a slight change to the look of the Forum; don't be alarmed.
The software that runs the Forum has undergone a leap from its Version 1.1.x stage, to a just-released Version 2. I am preparing the Forum for that upgrade, to happen some time soon, as soon as it is available to us. Part of that was to set us back to the default theme.
I'll keep y'all posted as to other changes as they happen/are about to happen. :) There is the possibility that the forum might even go down for a short while - if that is to happen, I'll post a days previous notice, and have a placeholder page in place while it happens.
That's all! :)
Actually...it did freak me out. :o
but I'm ok now! ;)
I've initiated a change in Registrars for our Domain Name, so sometime in the next day or so the site might appear to go down for a bit.
*If* that happens, do not be alarmed, it'll come back ASAP. :)
So you couldn't wait till 12/20 and really give us a scare eh! ;)
Dang, Tim - wish I would have thought of that one!
I guess I am just not as devious as you are. :P
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I think that everything WRT the Registrar change has happened successfully at this point, and so will 'unsticky' this topic...
OK, I have no idea if this is related or not, but for the last couple of days I have been getting a lot of "DNS lookup error"s. After a couple of refreshes or returns to the site it will load. But I have had to re-log in about three times when this has happened.
on edit; I am going on to a different computer and checking to see if it not a cache problem on the Mac. (clearing the cache also)
on further edit; Clearing the cache didn't help, immediately got a "DNS lookup error" but after 3 refreshes it went to and fortunately this time kept me logged in. So I guess if nobody else is having any problems, it is just this computer.
TL;DR - It's related, but should be over with now.
Long version - SNAFU. I started the transfer 2 days before the domain was to expire so that it would be done when that date came. However, GoDaddy canceled my attempt to move the DNS registration info to NameCheap without making it clear that they had done such, and _after_ NameCheap thought that it had been successfully taken care of - and so, so did I, based on info from the NameCheap website. A transfer like this can take up to 5 days to complete, so I waited...
...and 2+ days elapse and NOW GoDaddy is reporting that the domain has expired and has started sending traffic to THEIR parking page. Thus began my Saturday morning... ::)
An hour and a half later, after being on web chat with NameCheap while simultaneously being passed around the GoDaddy phone system to various sales and other folks, I finally got them to straighten the mess out, and finally late yesterday NameCheap was once again posting that the transfer was a success, and GoDaddy emailed me to let me know that they had surrendered the domains.
So, now - anything which changed that didn't need to at all anyway, should be nearly done propagating out through the internet tubes, and we should be back where we were before, before nothing that needed changing got changed for no good reason.
Got it? Test on Thursday... ;)
Too late! :o
I already beat the bytes outta this computer! >:(
(thanks for spending your time dealing with this, I really do appreciate it)
Grog for solving that... site became unavailable to me for several days, so I was just patiently waiting for something to sort itself out. Congratulations on a successful sorting!
Hmm, took two tries to get in this morning and made me log in again. Must still have some wrinkles.
on edit; and then gave me a DNS lookup error when I tried to post this
Tim, you may want to run traceroute from a command prompt and see where the hop times out... ping can also be useful to see where the problem occurs
Quote from: SalientAngle on December 18, 2012, 09:06:27 AM
Tim, you may want to run traceroute from a command prompt and see where the hop times out... ping can also be useful to see where the problem occurs
It is not a routing speed problem as it comes up quick and a refresh typically now gets me to the site.
Seems to be getting better, hasn't happened again this morning
On edit; Dang, spoke to soon, got a DNS and then had to re-log in.
If you are getting DNS errors, it could merely be the cache in the DNS servers you are using - that they have not gotten the word yet (meaning, they have not cached the new info yet). DNS changes can take a while, and they MAY have cached the fubar from over the weekend.
Not sure why you would have to be logging in when you DO get a DNS resolution, though. That's kind of odd. That's session management and cookies - could be local cache related, but once cache cleared and new cookie written, should be fine. No, that's a bit of a puzzler.
Unless? Does your browser mangle something in the session management cookie if a DNS lookup fails? I can't say I've ever heard of that, but wow....
Seems more like two separate issues SEEMING to be related (they are but only in the sense that they are related to the registrar change). Very strange that there is a session management effect.
For what it's worth as a potential data point, Firefox 12.0 here and NO session management/login issue since the change over.
Quote from: Tim on December 18, 2012, 11:30:39 AM
Seems to be getting better, hasn't happened again this morning
QuoteSeems more like two separate issues SEEMING to be related (they are but only in the sense that they are related to the registrar change). Very strange that there is a session management effect.
I have been thinking you are right about that, so have been pursuing avenues here at home, and have cleared cache and cookies a few times. I am on Firefox 17. 0.1 on my Mac, the DNS has come up on my Netbook also though I don't think the log in requirement has happened.
It can be very frustrating because I can load the "Recent Posts" page but then when I go to this particular thread it bumps me, requires a log in, then when I go to make this post it repeats the process.
on edit; anther problem is that being on a satellite IP, after clearing cache and cookies some sites like TSBB are very slow loading
tim, are you using primary and secondary static dns or are you configured with dynamic dns?
I think satellites are dynamic. I also just had to re=log into now on my netbook, so it is not just a problem with the Mac
on edit; Uhg! all I managed to do by clear the cookies on the Mac is screw up my ability to log into other sites, this too may be a satellite combined problem
ok, I have seen propagation delays on dynamic dns before; usually at the subnet level... it should go away on its own...
Yes, I should have left well enough alone, as now I am unable to log into TSBB >:(
Quote from: SalientAngle on December 18, 2012, 01:00:21 PM
ok, I have seen propagation delays on dynamic dns before; usually at the subnet level... it should go away on its own...
That should have NOTHING to do with login issues on this and other sites.
I'm wondering if your satellite provider (or the tech itself?) is providing some sort of caching that is screwing up the session management.
Also, for future reference...and apologies for pedantic zealousness if you did it this way...FF allows deleting individual cookies rather than the whole lot.
Really, this sounds like sort of proxy somewhere in the chain (first guess is satellite provider) not playing nice with the session management stuff - for some reason (no GOOD reason, but who knows how proxies are configured?). I cannot fathom why this would be an issue related to the registrar/DNS change.
I'm wondering if it's not coincidence that it appeared now, coinciding with the timing of the sailfar maintenance. It just makes no sense that a registrar change coupled with DNS server modifications would effect OTHER web sites...or even the session management of THIS site.
All DNS does is give you IP address resolution from name....once your system as that, DNS is not involved in ANY way with further transactions. DNS lookup errors and login/session management problems ALMOST have to be separate issues.
A DNS time-out, for example, has nothing to do with the sailfar http server accepting or rejecting your user credentials from either the session cookie, keyed directly in a GET request or you providing them manually with each http request. It would JUST be a DNS time-out, and the sailfar http server would not even have been contacted yet.
DNS does not care about your sailfar (or tsbb, or other) creds. So, that cannot be causing the time-outs. Once DNS resolves the IP address, it's done - out of the equation. All further transactions are with the sailfar http server (even if on the same physical machine!).
This is indeed a puzzler. ???
Tim, give me a call if you want. Phone number sent in PM.
FINALLY got on, using a work around Kurt sent. Looks like I wasn't alone
In reference to Smollet's last post a quick explanation, because I am really bored with this computer battle. My login issues on another site TSBB is probably a result of very slow loading pages there. It has happened before and I am pretty sure it is a satellite thing. The support from my satellite provider is a waste of time and does band-aid fixes on some real problems they have ( a quick look at their community forum will show you that). The slow loading pages is happening on both computers, the difference is I didn't lose my cookies on the other (definitely due to being over zealous and frustrated).
I am still getting DNS errors here, but they are a different horse and for some reason periodically I come up as a guest when I do get on.
IN any case between the two computers I can get on anything, though slowly on some.
There are worse problems in the world, and I have boat work to do ;)
Oh poop, maybe the world is going to end!
Apparently I am not the only one experiencing slowness on TSBB, of course I can't tell anybody that because it is too slow for me to log in ;D
So it appears it is a combination of things bringing my world down, isn't that always the way, oh well better luck next time ;)
I'm not Tim- everything normal here, except I still can't get onto Sailfar unless I use the work-around Kurt sent me
Yes it sounds like it is a selective slowness on TSBB. I am now logged in there on all my computer again, just slow. I am still getting DNS errors here and periodically having to relog in.
Whoopee!!!. SailFar is BACK, the regular way ;D ;D ;D