Yeah, it’s been nine days since I last posted, so sue me. I’ve been a little busier than normal. Of course now I’m off of work until next Wednesday the 26th so I’m good to go; or so I thought.
I got an email from John, who is the guy that is generous enough to host my 3rd Bass site for free for me. Well, he emailed me and told me that he was upgrading to a brand new server that would be faster and better than the old one, just the site would have to move and I’d have to change my nameservers for the domain name. I did all that and the 3rd Bass site went down for a few hours while the change was taking place. Once the change was done and the site was back up I went in and poked around and everything seemed to be working just fine. Well yesterday morning I went onto the message boards and I was checking out some of the postings and it still seems like it went smooth. Well, I went back in during the midday of yesterday and realized that something was wrong with the way the server was interpreting .php files. When you would go to the site it would ask you if you wanted to open the file or save it. Well that was definitely fucked up. So my first thought was to try and make the site accept .php as a page to open, but that was beyond me. I don’t think it is anything that I can control because it seems to be more a server side problem than something I have control over. I can access a few things through my cpanel but beyond that I’m helpless. Once I realized that I couldn’t reconfigure the server’s handling of those files, I decided I would just throw the message board on my site. Well, normally you go into the message board and into the administration panel and you do a backup, however if you’re keeping tabs, you will remember I can’t even access the boards, let alone the admin panel. The last time I did the backup from the admin panel I was able to change the path for the board and when I uploaded it to thirdbass.net everything worked fine. This time I had to backup my database from phpmyadmin and I didn’t know how to change the path for the site. I created a message board on my disgruntled site and I restored the database, but I couldn’t access a few areas of the site because the path was wrong. It kept taking me back to the thirdbass.net site when I’d click on a few things. Well, it wasn’t until Saturday morning that I finally figured out how the hell to fix it so it would work properly. Now that I have that working I redirected the boards on the one site over to here temporarily until whatever is wrong over there is working again. Hopefully that will be soon.
When I would get sick of trying to figure out how to fix my message boards yesterday I ended up playing around with a new design for Lisa’s blog. The way I’m doing it is going to be a little similar to my site, as far as the width of it and the large banner that will be in a flash format. I use the flash format because it seems to be a little smaller than if I was just using the picture. This way as I learn more about flash I can add little tweaks to the existing flash file and upload it and there won’t be any code changes. Little things like the fact that on my site when you click on guestbook, it opens two pages instead of just one and when you click on email it does do the email thing, but it also opens a blank page. Live and learn I guess.
Ok, geek talk off!
I’m officially on vacation; in fact I’m on my second day of vacation already. I am off Friday through Tuesday. I don’t really want to go back on Wednesday but I suppose I will. I always try to take this week off in October because it’s my birthday week. I already bought myself my birthday present because I’m too old for anyone else to buy one for me anymore. I got myself a bunch of DVD’s ordered. I’ve been wanting the George Carlin collections on DVD for quite some time so I finally bought those. I also got a few other movies, like Team America and Harold & Kumar along with a few others. Now I just need to get them so I can watch them since I’m going to be bored soon.