Portobello Online - On The Move...

Post by **wangi** » 10 Jul 2005, 12:39

Folks, for your information... Portobello Online is switching to another hosting provider over the next week. During this time don't be surprised if somethings do not work! The current plan is to do most of this work on Tuesday.
I'm just letting you know about it - Paul/xxxx is the guy doing most of the hard work!
On Tuesday a backup of the forum database will be made. To make sure no posts are lost during the move I'm going to lock all the forums - you'll be able to read but not post. I'll create a temporary forum too that will be open for posting, but the posts made there will not be copied across to the new host!
L/

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 11 Jul 2005, 00:18

What board are you using? everyone seems to be switching to vbulletin the now.

Post by **wangi** » 13 Jul 2005, 15:18

Robin! wrote:What board are you using? everyone seems to be switching to vbulletin the now.

It was just a move to a new hosting provider (textdrive.com) - still using phpBB2, and no plans to change that.

Post by **wangi** » 14 Jul 2005, 11:36

Porty wrote:Wangi, what happened to the Poll?

Argh, knew there'd be something! The database backup we got of the forum was from last weekend so I had to do a touch of manual wizardry to copy across the posts since then to the new system...

I got the new posts, I got the new users...

But on having a good look I've missed copying across polls since the weekend (just that 1 I think) and also all private messages since then!

Ah well - I'll just leave it be now.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Jul 2005, 11:42

No bother. Good work anyway.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Jul 2005, 14:34

Wangi. also noticed an abberation with "view posts since your last visit" Tells you there are none when there are???

Post by **wangi** » 14 Jul 2005, 14:53

Porty wrote:Wangi. also noticed an abberation with "view posts since your last visit" Tells you there are none when there are???

That's because we've moved to "porty.org.uk" as the main address (rather than the uber-catchy "portobello-edinburgh.org.uk")... I've still got to setup a redirect so if you access the old version you are automatically punted on to the porty.org.uk site - as it is just now both versions work but you'll get subtle errors (like this problem) using the "portobello-edinburgh" one.

A quick workaround - update your bookmark to be http://www.porty.org.uk/forum/

Ed · Post by Ed » 15 Jul 2005, 11:41

The threads I have unread posts in are no longer showing as orange, any ideas?

Post by **wangi** » 15 Jul 2005, 11:49

Yeah, read the post above yours.

Ed · Post by Ed » 15 Jul 2005, 11:57

Sorted, thanks.

Post by **wangi** » 15 Jul 2005, 12:07

No problem, have actually just put the real fix in too...

Code: Select all

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^porty\.org\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://porty\.org\.uk/$1 [R=permanent,L]