SluSignGuy Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Billikens.com should now be on a new server. Mainly the server software was on what was know as Centos 5.x, which is no longer supported as of last month. We are now on fancy-pancy 7.x, which actually may make some back end stuff easier for me (with 5.x, I had do do a few workarounds). During the move, I think we lost a few posts, but not too many. Additionally, the forum may not immediately accurately remember your last post read. Apologies for this. Hopefully everything runs smoothly, but if you notice something not working. Please let me know. If things work for the next day or two, I will try to do some upgrades to the forum software. But I don't want to do these until I have greater confidence the old software works before completely disposing of the old server. Again let me know if you experience problems, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 It worked fine for me and the forum did remember the last post I had read. So far so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billboy1 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Steve- really appreciate all you do for us MBMs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 Not going to lie. It is pretty great to have upgrades to software go much more smoothly with the new server software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 That is true. By the way my prior posts do not appear to persist in the response box when I try to use it again in the same thread. This saves having to erase the contents manually, this is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseOfTheBillikens Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Old guy said: That is true. By the way my prior posts do not appear to persist in the response box when I try to use it again in the same thread. This saves having to erase the contents manually, this is nice. +1 This is soooo nice. That was such an annoyance on my phone. Mizzou should of paid Steve to fix their board instead of overpaying Mr Porter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Steve, found the first problem with the new server, the text does not appear to wrap and keeps on extending to the right of the box. Like it does in notepad if you do not activate the text wrap feature. There is a margin but it goes way beyond the reach of my screen. Can you check this out please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Appears to be fixed now, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 For some reason if I go www.billikens.com from my laptop, I get this error SORRY! If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider: [email protected] I can access it fine from my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I'm really excited to be able to hit the back button on my phone from the board and go back to the homepage and not be flashed back to 4 posts from 3 months ago. Thanks steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 32 minutes ago, slufan13 said: For some reason if I go www.billikens.com from my laptop, I get this error SORRY! If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider: [email protected] I can access it fine from my phone. I am actually having a similar problem from my work computer... Can you access stevenmrogers.com from your laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 8 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said: I am actually having a similar problem from my work computer... Can you access stevenmrogers.com from your laptop? Yep no problems accessing that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 I will try to diagnose when at home. Hard to do when I can only access my web site on my phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 I can the site to load from my home computer. slufan, with your laptop, have you been having trouble accessing the site from Saint Louis University? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 My billikens.com doesn't work. I have to go straight to the message board. The front page does work on the mobile site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 7 hours ago, thetorch said: My billikens.com doesn't work. I have to go straight to the message board. The front page does work on the mobile site. Okay... Now that's a puzzle. At least my problem has been I could not get anything on Billikens.com to work at work. I can get everything to work at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Yeah I'm having the same issue. I can go straight to the message board but I can't access the main page. I'm using google chrome and windows 10. It actually works using IE and Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 Okay. This is good to know, so it is likely a WordPress issue of some sort. However, the odd part is that at least on Chrome for me (at home), everything works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 @slufan13 and or @thetorch Does chrome work for you now? I disabled a plugin or two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 14 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said: @slufan13 and or @thetorch Does chrome work for you now? I disabled a plugin or two... Still does not work for me. I also use Chrome on my phone and it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 17 minutes ago, slufan13 said: Still does not work for me. I also use Chrome on my phone and it works fine. Going to guess it still doesn't work now. (I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin that I think is causing problems). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Clear your cache and history on the computer?! I had some intermittent issues until I did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 To provide a little explanation, I think the problem is rooted in a WordPress plugin. The main site runs off of WordPress and the forum runs off of different software. There is a plugin WP RSS Aggregator which pulls in news articles and puts them on the front page. This plugin did not update properly after the server move, and I think anyone who interacted with the plugin (e.g. clicked a link) somehow cannot load Billikens.com in Chrome on desktops. I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin - and I was able to get things working for me on my home computer. (My gut is that my work computer is a completely different problem - but not sure.) If after clearing your cache and all relevant browser history, restarting your computer, and loading the main page still doesn't work...my befuddlement will continue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Steve When I search for billikens.com on Google on my home computer the top link is to the front page. When I click that it goes to an error page. When I choose to go to straight to the board it works. I had the front page bookmarked on my chrome. At work and home that bookmark takes me to the error page. Mobile does not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Steve, just to say, Firefox allowed things like Java for much longer than Chrome did. There are issues with videos and presentations not working in Chrome that do work in Firefox. However Firefox has been changing as of lately. I have not tried out the new Edge in Win 10 Creators update to any extent so I do not know. I also believe that Shockwave and Flash Player work differently with Firefox and Chrome. It might be easier for you to make sure the site works on a given browser, whatever it may be, and let everyone know which one it is, rather than trying to make it work well in all kinds of different browsers each one with its own quirks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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