KeenWiki moving servers

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KeenWiki moving servers

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Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that I am about to move the KeenWiki (actually everything on shikadi.net) over to a new server, so you may experience some issues over the coming week. Hopefully there won't be any downtime, but you may not be able to edit any pages for a day or so, depending on how quickly your ISP updates their DNS records. (If I've done it properly, no edits will be lost but you might see an error telling you the wiki is in read-only mode. If this happens you can try a Shift+Refresh to see if that bounces you over to the new server.)

In case you're curious, the wiki used to be hosted on a Linode, but it was getting a bit slow so I moved it to DreamHost almost five years ago. It's been there ever since, annoying me every time the server seemed to go down just as I wanted to work on it. Linode have long since upgraded their hosting plans, so I am moving it back there again as it should be much more reliable than DreamHost.
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Malvineous wrote:It's been there ever since, annoying me every time the server seemed to go down just as I wanted to work on it.
That happened to me a number of times as well. The darndest thing.
Thanks, Malvineous!
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Thanks for the heads up, and for your undying dedication and service to the Keen community!
I salute you, good sir! :moon
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Post by Malvineous »

Thanks for the kind words! The move is complete now, so I'll give it a few days for everything to adjust and then I'll terminate the DreamHost account just before it renews at the start of October. Won't be sorry to see that one go ;-)
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Post by NY00123 »

Although that's not news, shikadi.net is clearly a great source of information, along with actual data (e.g. downloadable apps.) Thanks for hosting and maintaining that place, the last migration being no exception!
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Son of a-


I ASKED YOU PEOPLE WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE WIKI! I ASKED FIVE TIMES!!! WHY DID NOE OF YOU TAKE TEN SECONDS TO SEND ME A LINK TO THIS TOPIC?!
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Sorry I didn't see any requests from you! If ever you have troubles with the wiki, please drop me a note at malvineous@shikadi.net and I will do what I can to help!
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No need, I fixed my problems with cunning.
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Post by Paramultart »

Sooooo.... looks like the Wiki is down? :/
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Post by troublesomekeen »

Whoops, did I break something?
It was a little slow loading an hour ago, but it's working fine for me now.
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Post by Paramultart »

All the icons are gone, and links lead to "No input file specified".
I'd take a screeny, but I don't feel like it.
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Paramultart wrote:All the icons are gone, and links lead to "No input file specified".
I'd take a screeny, but I don't feel like it.
The address becomes "devwiki" for those - replacing that with "keenwiki" gets you to where you want to go. It only happens to some links.
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Post by Malvineous »

Oh sorry guys, I took a copy of the wiki to work on (trying to find the best way of presenting the 'most popular mods' list) and forgot that if both wikis share the same database the cached pages will get the wrong links in them!

I've wiped the page cache so hopefully you won't see any more broken links - if you do, Shift+Refresh should fix them.
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Post by Paramultart »

Thanks for clearing that up. :)
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Post by Levellass »

Behold the WikiLord. At his command does the entire edifice of Keening collapse!
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