As many of you will have noticed, there have been some problems recently with our site. I thought I had it all under control earlier this month, when on the 8th of december I made uploading of images to the old site impossible.
I then synchronised the new site from the old site, so that they were identical. And then on the night of the 10th, the hosting provider switched to the new site. All accesses to
http://www.sl113.org were redirected to a new computer. And I enabled uploads again.
On the 14th I was alerted to this post
index.php?topic=4550]
http://index.php?topic=4550 about uploading images, and I spotted that I had made a mistake in configuration of the security settings for the new site so that uploads were impossible.
When I spotted this I was in Boston, on a business trip. Luckily I had my draft -webmeister- handbook with me so I had my login codes and I could fix the problem. I did this and updated my post.
I flew on to Tampa on the 15th (but I did not forget to eat a typical New England Lobster pot, which I have to do everytime I'm there). I was very busy there, and could not connect to the site or my private e-mail. On the 16th I was due to fly back to the Netherlands via JFK. I was very worried I might not make it as bad weather --snow storms-- were forecast for JFK earlier that week.
However, I got to Tampa airport with plenty of time to spare. The weather above NY was fine. I checked in, and entered the Delta lounge. Regrettably the lounge Wifi was unreliable so I did not bother accessing the site or reading my private e-mails, dedicating my attention to a couple of martini's instead.
About an hour before the flight, Delta / Song announced a two hour delay in the departure time. It dawned on me that that meant I was going to miss my connecting flight to Amsterdam from JFK. As a result I missed a large Christmas party for which I was meant to be the Master of Ceremonies, and could not access the internet for a couple of days (the hotel Delta put us up in was not much... and then I went into New York City rather than hanging around an airport hotel or terminal 4 at JFK. I enjoyed myself at MoMa for 5 hours, and then walked about 5th avenue -- which was so crowded with Christmas shoppers, Saks window gazers and Rockefeller center Ice-skate watchers).
Anyway, upon my return home, 27 hours late and dead tired, I just read the e-mails and found that all the changes I made were useless.
On the night of the 16th of December, our hosting providers switched off the old site. However, prior to doing that they were so considerate as to load all the files of the old site on the new site. Regrettably that means that all picture files uploaded between the 10th and the 16th of December are lost, because they went to the
new site. Please reference the post URL above as to how to fix it if you uploaded pictures in that period.
There may be further hidden bugs. If you encounter one, please let me know. I'll try and resolve them ASAP.
Thank you
Peter
