Welcome home, folks!

[Birol]

We're here! On our own, brand-new server. It's soo exciting!

There's bound to be problems.

If you encounter any errors or glitches, report them here. To help out the techies:

1. Copy and paste any error message you receive here.
2. State the last thing you clicked on pre-error.
3. Describe what you were doing in as much detail as possible when the error occurred. (We promise you won't get in trouble.)

[MacAllister]

You might notice occasional oddnesses in board performance. If so, please report them here!

We're set up on Dawnette--alhtough I think the VCR clock still isn't reset.

Welcome home. :)

[Rolling Thunder]

I seem to be locked in a time warp of a 5 hour difference.

[MacAllister]

Rllg, yes. Charlie is looking into why the clock is stuck. That's precisely the kind of thing it's helpful for us to know, though--thanks!

[veinglory]

Yay! The bugs under my skin were really getting annoying.

[Forbidden Snowflake]

So cool, thx guys :) Nothing looking wrong yet ;)

[Birol]

Swell new tent you have there, Thunder. ;)

[Rolling Thunder]

Swell new tent you have there, Thunder. ;)

Yeah, but it smells like dog.

**mumble, mumble**

damn Haggis......

ETA: I see the clock is fixed. Nice job! Very quick!

[ChunkyC]

Can I get out of my chair now? My bum is numb. ;)

[Rolling Thunder]

Does AW still get $$ if I click on the ads?

[ChunkyC]

yeppers :)

[poetinahat]

Can I get out of my chair now? My bum is numb. ;)
You mean the new throne hasn't gotten there yet?

Charlie, you're a god among us.

[Birol]

The system won't let me change my customer avatar. I go into the UserCP, select Edit Avatar, use the browse function to select the saved file (one I've used since the beginning of June), click save changes and get this message:

Unable to save avatar

Again, it's the chi avatar I've been using since the Dark Days, so the sizes should be fine.

[Medievalist]

Betcha a dollar it's paths Birol :D

[Ol' Fashioned Girl]

I can't change mine, either. Here's the message it gave me:


Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/pdwvzafp/public_html/forums/customavatars) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/apache/htdocs/absolute:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /includes/class_dm_userpic.php on line 235

[Birol]

Yep. Paths. Give Medievalist a dollar.

[Medievalist]

Someone owes me a dollar; I've passed the error up the chain Ol' Fashioned Girl. Thanks much for letting us know.

[Ol' Fashioned Girl]

No prob. I'll drop the dollar in the pot!

[Susie]

Roses are red
Violets are bright.
Thanks all for making
This place home, day and night!

Much appreciation. :Cake: :popcorn: :Cake: for everybody! :e2grouphu

[JeanneTGC]

I keep having connectivity problems, where I'll be posting, refreshing or trying to open another forum, and the system tells me that it's basically not there. I am a bad problem poster, though, because I didn't copy down the error message. (This could easily be my local DSL connectivity issue, though I seem to be fine elsewhere, not the site, but I mention it just in case.)

Great job, all the way around. The minor glitches have been just that, minor, and you're all to be congratulated! Thanks for taking such good care of us!

[Diana Hignutt]

I keep having connectivity problems, where I'll be posting, refreshing or trying to open another forum, and the system tells me that it's basically not there. I am a bad problem poster, though, because I didn't copy down the error message. (This could easily be my local DSL connectivity issue, though I seem to be fine elsewhere, not the site, but I mention it just in case.)

Great job, all the way around. The minor glitches have been just that, minor, and you're all to be congratulated! Thanks for taking such good care of us!

Almost nothing is there when I try to access it. I keep getting error message 500. For example, I couldn't access page 2 of the Science Fiction Forum, the search function didn't work for me, I had to quote the previous poster here because the reply button didn't work. All with Error Message 500, basically saying the web site's not there. Hopefully, this message will work.

[shawkins]

In regards to those of you who are clicking through to dead links: can you copy & paste the specific URL that's giving the error message?

[JeanneTGC]

Got a new one for you -- I can't link/open up a window from the site any more. As in, if someone puts a url for an agent's site up on Bewares, I can't click on it. I get a box that says that I may have pop-ups blocked, but when I go to allow popups, it changes nothing and I also don't get a website name to add to my "allows" file. I can open/link from any other Explorer or Opera window (I use both), so I think it may be a site issue.

Not having the slow connection issues any more, but if I do I will remember to get the url for which page I was on.

[ChunkyC]

A lightbulb just went off over my head ... when we moved before, a number of you had trouble accessing the forums until you put the Absolute Write IP address into a file on your computer known as the 'hosts' file.

You will need to either remove that entry, or update it to use the new IP address. I'll be back when I can dig up the old instructions, I want to make sure I have it all right. But I wanted to give you the heads up right away.

[robeiae]

You might notice occasional oddnesses in board performance. If so, please report them here!Haskins is a little off his game...

[ChunkyC]

This is for anyone who had to put an entry in their hosts file the last time we changed servers:
===================================

Open Windows Explorer

Click on C: drive

Hold down Ctrl key and hit F key

In the search for files or folders type hosts

Right click on hosts file (if you see more than one, you want the one in the windows/system32/drivers/etc folder

click Open

It should bring up a box asking you which program you'd like to open it with - select notepad

The last line should have an IP address (bunch of numbers and periods) and the word localhost
On the next line, type 69.13.227.201 then hit the tab key and type www.absolutewrite.com

If you already have a line for absolutewrite, just replace the IP address with the one above.

Go to the file menu up top, click on it and save it

Close it all out, clear your cookies and browser cache, then you should be ready to go.

[Ol' Fashioned Girl]

One of you techie types might want to visit this cry for help:

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47546

[BottomlessCup]

OFG is linking to my post.

About 50% of the time, when I load a page, I get stuff like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:54:32 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.8d X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Cache-Control: private Pragma: private Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 16036 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ‹ÿí}kwÛF’ögûÿ‡63ÉY‰¤î[Ê‘dÉQ^_4–<ÞœlH‚$,’à d%gþû>Oõ ^DɳÙ}'3‰H°Q]]]]U]U]ýêùë'W¿\œªNÒ몋OÇoÏOTiµRù¼qR©¼¾z þó§«woÕZ¹ª®"¯Iö½n¥rú¾¤J?$ìW*···åÛ?rµ+W+_ k?/›?«IæÍr3i–Ÿ=}%=6ƒè ÔM¢’êzýöAÉïëß|¯É6=?ñ€Z2Xõÿ1nJ'a?ñûÉêÕÝÀ/©†þvPJü¯I…_ªFÇ‹b?98¿ü°º»»µ·ºVR«ïõüƒRÛïû‘—„èÖ?¸9 v»~ôÕFy«¼¡_zöô‰ÅB¿yíß݆Q3μx‰ŪFÃÞ ¿ý¶Š^/–oüíÖÚÍ•/a]Ú)óÎJ'ˆ|噯®uÏ‹®ýdí¦7¢`ÀÈôÔH‚_õü8öÚ¾ª‡^Ô$2®u ÛñÑÍ]8\êvU+è7Õ’EZ#¶¤¼f¼¢êþ ùøࡉ¦QW5ƒ¸1Œcô©¼z8L” ^<ðI¬Â–J:¾jD^?à ú0úÀ„¿R”õ@@HþïÕóÕUury©.“»®w|?

When I hit reload, it loads fine. It just started happening today.

[BottomlessCup]

And I get this one a lot:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:00:59 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.1.6 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.8d X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Cache-Control: private Pragma: private Location: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/search.php?searchid=1125795 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 0

When this one comes up, I can't get reload to work and have to find a different way to the page. (Like going through the forum instead of New Posts.)

It hasn't happened with any other site.

[Medievalist]

BC you've got me confused; I'm going to pass your two questions up to a Higher Geek Authority.

[kristie911]

Almost nothing is there when I try to access it. I keep getting error message 500. For example, I couldn't access page 2 of the Science Fiction Forum, the search function didn't work for me, I had to quote the previous poster here because the reply button didn't work. All with Error Message 500, basically saying the web site's not there. Hopefully, this message will work.

I was having the same problem all day...I finally gave up. Now I've been on a couple of times since 8p or so and the problem seems to have been resolved. I haven't had any issues...

[Diana Hignutt]

I have to keep retrying about 3-8 times to get a page to load. I've never had this happen before, nor does it happen on anyother website. Here's the error message:

Error 500 'www.absolutew...' Unknown Host.




Try reloading the Web page.
Retype the address in your browser.
Check your computer's Internet connection.

search Try searching:
http://o.aolcdn.com/aolsearch/img070071/btn_search.gif (javascript:document.searchForm1.submit())

The url that gives this message is simply the url I'm trying to get to (i.e. www.absolutewrite.com/forums (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums) or whichever post I try to read. It's very annoying.

[Medievalist]

Diana are you using AOL?

This is, I think, a DNS or Domain Name Service issue; the DNS is a gigantic list, a copy of which resides on servers at every single ISP, that relates the network address of a particular domain, that is something.com or something.net, etc, with its name and with the ISP that is actually hosting the domain. As part of the move, AW changed the DNS record, and that change needs to be reflected on every single ISP's list. It takes a while.

AOL also does local caching of popular sites, so it's a little slower. I note AOL doesn't work for me either, in terms of reaching AW.

I know it's frustrating, but time will cure this one.

And I'm glad to see you :D

[JennaGlatzer]

The Google ads are doubled on my screen (two of the same ad, one on top of the other).

[robeiae]

The Google ads are doubled on my screen (two of the same ad, one on top of the other).
Ditto.

Maybe Google thinks we're suckers?

[MacAllister]

Nope--I was goofing around with ad-optimization code, and left a piece of code in that I shouldn't have.

Fixed now. :D

[ChunkyC]

Give that gal a propellor beanie!

[Christine N.]

Yep, Diana, it IS an AOL thing. I was getting frustrated, so I jumped over to MIE and am having no problems.

I thought it was my brand new MIE 7.0 upgrade. Nope, just AOL. Hopefully it'll resolve in a couple of days.

[Mom'sWrite]

I used to get notification when threads I had posted to received new postings, but now I don't know nothing from nothing.

No email notifications even though my user options tells me I should be getting them.

Was I naughty?

[Medievalist]

Screenmom that's an annoying glitch, and, well, I don't have a fix.

What does usually work is

1. Bookmark in your browser, or open in Windows or Tabs the threads you want to be subscribed
2. Unsubscribe from all of 'em
3. Leave the CP
4. Go back to the CP
5. Resubscribe

Sorry I can't wave a wand; I would if I could.

[Mom'sWrite]

Screenmom that's an annoying glitch, and, well, I don't have a fix.

What does usually work is

1. Bookmark in your browser, or open in Windows or Tabs the threads you want to be subscribed
2. Unsubscribe from all of 'em
3. Leave the CP
4. Go back to the CP
5. Resubscribe

Sorry I can't wave a wand; I would if I could.

That's magic enough for me. Thanks.

[BottomlessCup]

BC you've got me confused; I'm going to pass your two questions up to a Higher Geek Authority.

Thanks. It's still doing it.

It hasn't done it on Done Deal, which is a vBulletin board, too.

I'm the only one who has this happening, huh? Hm.

I am on Safari on a Mac. Could that have something to do with it?

[Medievalist]

No, all Intelligent Users With Good Taste use Macs ;)

Are you on dialup? Who's your ISP? PM me if you want to.

[Silver King]

My pages are loading too fast. I don't have time to blink before they come up. Everything is working so seamlessly that, to be honest, it's disconcerting.

Can we go back to the old server?;)

[Soccer Mom]

Somebody hush that fish up! I haven't been stuck waiting for a page to load since...um...saturday!

[Sean D. Schaffer]

Hi everyone,

There seems to be a problem with the database as I try to access certain threads. I originally tried to access the 'Writing Erotica' section, and I could not get it to work. I pressed the 'Stop' button on my browser and tried again.

The second time I tried, it still did not work, and I had to press the 'Stop' button on my browser again.

The third time I clicked on the link, I got the 'There seems to be a problem with the Databas' error message.

After this, I went to the main forums page from my favorites in IE, and from there I tried my User Control Panel. I got the same message.

After that, I got the message no matter what link I clicked, and finally I let it sit for a couple minutes before clicking the link to the main forums page and everything works fine now.

[Freckles]

Thanks for everyone's hard work. I'd claim I helped, but then I'm a big dummy when it comes to computers!

[Jean Marie]

I didn't get notified of a pm--which was a bummer. I've mailed photos out from one of the auctions and I'm waiting for responses regarding their arrivals.

Passing it along. Don't want to blame the post office, unless...:D

[willywilly99]

We've also been doing it with all the OTL Random Thoughts stuff in the OTL. Sorry, but the SR is no different. Now have fun in your fresh thread.

[anangwaps]

Good day!!!!
I haven't meet some problem right now. It flows okay.
Thanks for doing good.
God bless.........
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[Anna Magdalena]

I haven't been able to get on for three days. I'm not on AOL. I use a small friendly efficient UK ISP.

I just thought it was me and kept trying ....

Seems okay now though. I missed everyone!

[Roger J Carlson]

It's good to be back!

A lot of people didn't get the email I sent out because their email address in the Refugee Camp (http://www.rogerjcarlson.com/forum/writerforum/default.asp)was invalid. If you want to be notified next time (God forbid), make sure your email address is correct. If you've never registered for the Camp, you can do so now. I'll keep registration open for a few days.

If you can't get in, let me know at Roger.j.carlson@gmail.com and I'll take care of it for you.

[Pamster]

Thanks for all you do keepig th AW Refugee camp open for business when we need it Roger, I really appreciated being able to see what was up with the server and all from the news thread. :D