Update on Forum Issues Since Moving Servers

[Elisabeth]

On Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 7am Eastern, we are moving the SEW Forums to a new server. It will take anywhere from a few minutes to maybe a day until the domain system starts to point at the new server.

You will know you are at the new server if you are able to read and post threads. If you are still sent to the old server, you'll see a temporary URL that will point you to to a new server until the domain changeover is complete.

Otherwise, the forum URL will remain: http://forums.searchenginewatch.com

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause in the short term.

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Thanks everyone for your patience in advance - once we move the forums and upgrade them, we'll be able to do some other improvements that we've had on our to-do list.

[Robert_Charlton]

It would be interesting to do an information DNS propagation test... have people post as they get the site on the new server. Wouldn't be the same as if you had a team of people all over the world trying every five minutes, but it will still have some entertainment value.

Good luck with the move.

[rustybrick]

7:01AM, hope all is going well.

[Marcia]

It's 5:21 Pacific Time, resolving in Los Angeles.

[Chris_D]

10.52 pm Sydney time (i.e. GMT +10 i.e. Australian Eastern Standard time...) - I tried earlier - got the 'moving' message - tried http://beta.forums.searchenginewatch.com but got a 404.

All is good now.....

[dannysullivan]

I couldn't log in at first. I tried switching off ZoneAlarm, but that didn't help. I then closed Firefox and restarted it. Then I could log in, but after the login, i was taken from forums.searchenginewatch.com to beta.forums.searchenginewatch.com, making me log in again.

I've sent a note over to the developers to look at the issue. If others can't log in, try restarting your browsers.

[rustybrick]

Same deal with me Danny. I am logged in now.

[Elisabeth]

No problems logging in here, of course I'm always fashionably late to the party.

[hoosieradvisor]

Oh my gawd, I think I've joined a forum way over my head! Yikes! :eek:

I'm simply trying to learn how be found by SE.

[Robert_Charlton]

5:38pm PDT in the San Francisco Bay area...

Noting that the home page nav url has apparently been changed. Before, it was...

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/index.php

Now, if click on the "Search Engine Watch Forums" link from the top breadcrumbs, you get...

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/?

From the logo, there's no question mark.

[Marcia]

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/index.phpThat's how it is in my Windows Favorites, but the new way (without the extra redundant folder) seems more correct and easier to remember for type-ins.

I'm simply trying to learn how be found by SEThen you've come to exactly the right place! And welcome to SEW Forums, just pull up a chair and start reading.

[shor]

I couldn't log in at first...
If others can't log in, try restarting your browsers.
This worked for me.

[wtongen]

I have not gooten the feed since the 6/9 show:

I get this from feedburner:

Feed Address: http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/searchcast

HTTP Error Code: 500

Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnection Exception: Error getting URL: 502 - Source feed is too large

[Elisabeth]

I have not gooten the feed since the 6/9 show:

I get this from feedburner:

Feed Address: http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/searchcast

HTTP Error Code: 500

Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnection Exception: Error getting URL: 502 - Source feed is too large

thanks for reporting this issue- I'll look into that.

[Brian M]

Hi Folks,

I know you have your hands full with this changeover, but I thought you should know that some posts from yesterday are missing.

I was about to reply to another poster in a Google thread who asked me a question yesterday afternoon, but his post is gone today...

Not a big deal, but it may look a little odd if I post an answer to myself...

Brian M

[rustybrick]

I still have to login every time I come back to the forums. Also just now, while viewing the forums after logging in and being active on it, it asked me to log in again.

On Apple Safari 2.0.3

[Chris_D]

I'd put in a 301 redirect from http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/index.php to http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/

[dazzlindonna]

I also still have to login every time I come here, now. using Firefox.

[Marcia]

I use IE and everything is working A-OK. Maybe a browser compatibility issue?

[Elisabeth]

the developers have told me this so far about the login issue:

Logging out is likely to be a cookie problem, at a guess. If there's more than 20 mins between your uses of the forums then there's a 50/50 chance of you ending up on the other web server -which may invalidate your cookie.

They are looking into it further

[wtongen]

thanks for reporting this issue- I'll look into that.

All better now! Thanks. :)

[Cristian Mezei]

I still can't access the main forum. Europe.

I'm writing trough beta.

[dazzlindonna]

Still have to login all the time.

[Elisabeth]

Yep, we're still working on the login issues. Thanks for your patience with that - I'm personally experiencing it too - so I know how frustrating it is!

we're also aware the feature threads don't always seem to work properly.

the 301 redirect has been put in place.

Please do let us know if you find any more bugs.

[Cristian Mezei]

Everything's ok now.

[rustybrick]

All good for me also, not sure if it had to do with me deleting my cookies or what you did.

[lorax]

I noted that when I click on the Google Forum link from http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/ I land on a page that tells me there haven't been any posts in that forum for the last 30 days.... which I doubt. ;)

I tried it logged in and logged out. Same result.

[Cristian Mezei]

I get that too.

There have been no posts in the last 30 days in this forum.
Try using the controls below to search for any older posts that may exist.

[fmj]

Hi,

I have noticed a problem with the search form on the LHS of the page. It is directed towards /forum/search.php?* which is a 404 response. Removing the directory from the path allows you to locate the page though.

rgds

fmj

[Chris Boggs]

I have also been having issues with the search feature...anyone else?

***Addded: the search feature in the top nav works, but not the quick search on the left, like fmj said.

[Chris Boggs]

Hi I am having a huge display issue this morning...anyone else? The left nav bar is top center and I have to scroll way down to get to content...

[rustybrick]

Me too, it just started, in the post entry screen it looks fine but not in view mode.

[rustybrick]

seems like they just fixed it.

[Chris Boggs]

yep fixed here...

[Robert_Charlton]

I've been having some image loading problems... not sure whether it has anything to do with the server move, or it's just a lot of users (though I'd hate to think that a dozen active users could bring the server to its knees). The little blue and orange read-status icons at the top left of each post didn't load initially until I refreshed the page.

Fortunately, I haven't experienced any of the log-in problems mentioned since the first few days.

[Elisabeth]

I belive the display /image issues are a result of putting Ads back on the forum - just happened today.

[Robert_Charlton]

The site had access problems last night. Got error messages and finally gave up. I see that AdWords Advisor had similar difficulties.

[Daria_Goetsch]

Having to log in everytime I visit as well.

[evilgreenmonkey]

Having to log in everytime I visit as well.

I had this problem myself and solved it by deleting the cookies for searchenginewatch.com and forums.searchenginewatch.com. This forced the browser to create brand new ones and solved the corruption issue. You can find out how to do this by searching for "deleting a browser cookie" on Google.

One issue that I've started to see is hanging when loading pages though. I see this alot on overloaded MS SQL Server setups, and wondering if Incisive Media's MySQL servers are having problems responding quickly enough to the thousands of queries they get sent every minute? Maybe a larger database cluster is needed?


:confused:

Rob