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November 22, 2003

Gallery's up...

Upgraded the Gallery software and re-installed all the albums and photos. Not too big a pain in the ass, but I'm glad it's done.

I'm sure I missed some things, but I think for the most part everything significant is there.

Posted by jbuie at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)

November 21, 2003

Finally

The DNS change went through WAY faster than I thought it would. It only took about 4 hours total to reinstall Movable Type, recreate all the scripts, customized pages, etc.

Would have gone a lot faster if the crappy GUI ftp client I was using hadn't munged up the permissions on my entire directory tree. I had no idea it was next to impossible to recursively chmod files and directories from an ftp prompt...

Anyway, everything is back (I think) except the web Gallery. Not going to worry about that yet. I'm done staring at a monitor for a while...

Posted by jbuie at 09:56 PM | Comments (2)

November 20, 2003

ugh

I got an email from my ISP the other day. They're decommissioning the server my site is on, so I have until December 1st to move my site to the new server. Which really means I have until Monday, since I will be out of town next week. And I'm on call this week, so I won't really have much time at all to work on this.

The bad news is that I can't just ftp everything over. I tried putting everything on the new server last night with the ftp mode set to "auto" and that was a disaster. I expected most of the scripts would break because paths to files and directories have changed, but nothing works. It looks as if the ftp client just uploaded everything as binary, which is bad for scripts. So nothing works.

My plan is to re-ftp all the static pages, re-install Movable Type and Gallery from scratch, and attempt to re-construct everything. I doubt that I'll have time to do all that before December 1st, so who knows what this site will look like in a week...

Posted by jbuie at 02:56 PM | Comments (0)