Server Downtime

[Brett_Tabke]

Server change some time this week. Probably offline for a few hours at some point.

[tangor]

Hours of Excitement, or Hours of Despair ... hoping for the former! (As I am sure it will be.)

[Brett_Tabke]

dns propagation has commenced...weirdness will ensue. Admins/Mods- leave stuff alone for now.... no validations or edits please.

[Brett_Tabke]

this is going to take a couple hours to sync the servers.

[robzilla]

A little light on details for a webmasters forum :-) What sort of hardware are we looking at?

Any reason HTTP/2 and brotli aren't enabled?

Was noticing some weird things yesterday, like not2easy being a "New Member". Looks OK now.

[lucy24]

Was noticing some weird things yesterday

I was especially struck by the time “new posts” was entirely empty even while the Forums Index looked as it should :)

Today, otoh, I am especially struck by the way there are five, or rather 4 + 1, of this thread. At least in Unread Posts; if instead I try going straight to WebmasterWorld Community Center, it is entirely empty.

I expect it will all come out in the wash.

[Brett_Tabke]

ya - it's Robzilla's fault. hehe

I was messing with apache modules and broke alot of stuff a bit ago.

I'm trying to resist the urge to play (like adding http/2) until it settles down.

[dnschecker.org...]

[Brett_Tabke]

Well, rocked back-n-forth through dns issue myself. I finally found one that was updated and switched my dns to there...

[tangor]

Yikes! Just checking WW for first time today and got nothing but 403!

"Server unable to read htaccess, forbidden just to be safe"

Initial panic! Where was my beloved WW?

About 7-9 minutes later (after searching web for reports of WW down... all got good again!

Whew!

Need my daily WW fix!

[lucy24]

Ooh, ooh, I got my favorite error message:

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

On certain Very Special Sites, I have seen the equivalent with 404. But here at least I can be confident it wasn't the result of failing to poke a hole for error documents.

Oh, and just watch. If there was some error condition that existed for ninety seconds before being restored to normal, I would bet money that bing crawled the site during those ninety seconds, and will expect to see that same error from now until, oh, 2028 or so.

[robzilla]

Came here for the Bill Slawski thread ;-( Got a 404 from the Recent Posts page.

[engine]

Yup, ditto robzilla.
I think Brett's going to be busy behind the scenes!

[Brett_Tabke]

ya, I may have to delete the entire system and reupload. Which could take a few hours.

Had major DNS issues yesterday. In the middle of it, I was making major changes that splatted every forum index. When I recreated them, there was a permissions issue that was compounded by ownership issues. Somehow I got logged in as an FTP user of Pubcon on the Webmasterworld act. (I think I'd su'd to root in a shell and changed a file that then wrote back out as that files owner). So now trying to work through those, but it might be easier to reupload the board and start fresh.

[Brett_Tabke]

Looks like it has settled down.