Happy New Year! (and forum downtime info)

Post by **DanTheMan** » 01 Jan 2006, 04:39

The forum downtime was due to stupidity. I made a full backup of the database and files, and forgot to restart mysql/apache once the backup was done. Duh!

Happy New Year to you all!

/Daniel

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 01 Jan 2006, 05:11

Happy new year to all and your families! May you get what you desire and stay far from what you don't...

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 01 Jan 2006, 08:38

Happy New Year to all !!!!! good to hear from you Dan, and hopefully might see ya on track soon m8 !!!

Post by **DanTheMan** » 01 Jan 2006, 09:19

I'm online several times a week using rFactor. Until recently I almost exclusively drove the F3 mod, but I've been doing some PCC racing the last week also. Good fun!

I tried the F1 mod, but it keeps changing and I just don't have enough patience to try to keep up with patches and stuff like that. Besides, the F3s and Porches provide a LOT of fun and feel better suited for online play. Lower speed and less powerful brakes makes for fewer race-ending accidents.

/Daniel

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 01 Jan 2006, 10:10

love the Porsches too Dan, fun stuff for sure !!!! have done a few online races with big fields, and was a blast

meoPHOENIX · Post by **meoPHOENIX** » 01 Jan 2006, 12:25

happy new year to all of you darlings.

erick is online on msn I hope we can get some news today about him. of course I woke up that late now that he will propably sleep now ... but good to see him online.

OK now ... the new year has started ... LETs DO WHAT WE WANT!!!

... have a nice day! ... have fun! ... I DO!

meo

Erick · Post by **Erick** » 01 Jan 2006, 14:37

Hi guys!!! Been gone along time. What you guys been up to? Sorry I've been away so long. How's life treating you?

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 01 Jan 2006, 16:11

Hi ALL,

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone and families.

Hope 2006 will be full of good health and happiness to ALL.

LET'S ROCK!!!!!!

hehehehehe

Steve B

aawil · Post by **aawil** » 01 Jan 2006, 16:20

Happy New Year all. Nice to hear from you Erick.

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 01 Jan 2006, 17:10

Well more fun in 2006 than in 2005! To all of you!

Post by **DanTheMan** » 02 Jan 2006, 09:45

The forum will be up and down a bit for the next day or so. There's nothing wrong with hardware or software, I'm just running some upgrades on the server to bring all installed applications up to their latest versions.

The server sits behind a pretty restrictive firewall so it's not quite as vulnerable as a server sitting directly in the Internet, but it doesn't hurt to keep stuff up-to-date.

/Daniel

meoPHOENIX · Post by **meoPHOENIX** » 02 Jan 2006, 15:04

Flow wrote:Well more fun in 2006 than in 2005! To all of you!

don't worry dan

this is making the discussion about the new season more exciting hehe

... hmmmm exciting forum .... exciting rFACTOR ... I GET THERE

... have a nice day! ... have fun! ... I DO !!!

meo

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 02 Jan 2006, 18:15

Thanks for your efforts, Dan!

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 02 Jan 2006, 21:26

once again Dan IS The Man !!!!

Post by **DanTheMan** » 03 Jan 2006, 16:46

After noticing that quoting stopped working after the update of the forum software I took a close look at the code. Turns out that updating the forum software using the official patch-files has failed to properly modify all files, leaving us with a somewhat broken install. Not sure how this happened, but I'll report it back to the developers of phpBB.

Fortunately I put the forum software under version control (Subversion) last year to help deal with updates, and it helped me a lot while tracking this problem down.

The final solution was to download the latest full release of phpBB (2.0.19), apply the latest attachment mod (2.4.1) and then using Subversion to manually inspect the changes compared to what we were actually using. Some of the changes missing were quite substantial!

I had made a few custom changes to the old code that I've tried to carry over to the new install. This mostly has to do with making the forum more search-engine-friendly (allowing the Google and MSN spiders to index the public forums better). I think I found and fixed all of these changes, but given the large diff between the old and new code it's hard to be 100% certain.

Anyway, what you are using now is a fresh codebase consisting of phpBB v2.0.19 + attachment mod v2.4.1 + a few local changes. The only real difference is the update of the attachment mod from 2.3.14 to 2.4.1, plus of course the update to the REAL phpBB 2.0.19 (since the old install was somewhat broken).

Please let me know if you find any problems!

/Daniel

Post by **DanTheMan** » 03 Jan 2006, 16:48

Oh, yeah, you might need to re-login after the update. One of the missing changes dealt with how logins are handled.

/Daniel

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 03 Jan 2006, 17:39

Dan, your alias suits you well!

carrera · Post by **carrera** » 04 Jan 2006, 17:47

Yo ..Happy New Yera everyone...and hello to Erick who we all miss racing with.Hope you are doing ok m8.Been along time since we heard from you.You Dan,sounds like you are still a busybody and thanks for keeping this forum rockin and rollin.I have been racing the porsches as well and have a blast.The slower speeds makes for cleaner racing by far and with so many damn tracks converted over it never gets boring..LOL>..thank god for that.
Will hopefully see some of you guys online during this break.Now if I could just get a little more time offa work...
carrera