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sorry for the downtime, my host moved my site to another box and broke all the passwords and such...

should all be ok now.

Oh, I thought those were restrictions on that new network they set up in our building ;D Glad to see it back up, though

Is it just me, or have some posts vanished into the ether?

Yeah, I've noticed a lot of missing posts.

hmm odd. probably lost when they did the transfre... :/

i fear that they actually didn't transferred anything: the machine crashed and they restored the website on another system from latest backup...

Btw, there are odd warnings (and tons of 'm) on the wiki ... i suspect they changed PHP version too or something .

Sounds about right Pype

"Oh no, the machine crashed, what shall we tell them? I know let's say we transferred their site to a better machine, that'll keep them happy. Let's just hope they don't notice the old backup, I'm sure they don't have any content that is updated more than once a week..."

nah they moved a few boxes around were upgraded to rhat 7.3 from pre redhat 7 systems (old boxes)...

they changed php from 4.3.something i think to 4.4.0, mysql same, apache same..mmm i now have imap when i didnt before...

seems they turned on the zend optimiser or something..

I get "Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in ", what's wrong?

Most probably you are running PHP 4.4.0+ and use the PHP Zend Optimizer (see phpinfo). This is a Zend Optimizer bug. See http://gallery.menalto.com/node/36605#comment-133101 for some explanations. You should deactivate the Zend Optimizer or use an older PHP version. We filed the Zend Optimizer bug and are waiting for a response.

i dont have access to php.ini to disable/change the zend optimiser.... >:(

i'll work on it...

ok, my host has has it configured that there is no local php.ini, and php built will only look in /etc...

so i cant change the zend optimiser. grrrrr

maybe its time to go to mediawiki?? or something else...

You can fix that error by removing the "&" symbol on the line the error occurs on. SMF used to have the same problem when people upgraded to 4.4.0, it was caused by the & in front of a mysql command. Of course mediawiki is nice too for a change, I use it myself and love it's interface.

Speaking of SMF, looks like you can now upgrade to it since your server now has a new enough version of php. ;D

how hard is it to upgrade to smf? will it decrease the size of my DB by any? (ie: store messages compressed? etc?)..

i'm pushing over 50mb

Upgrading should be easy.

As for decreasing the size. Not when it's first installed, but there are new tools in the admin center in SMF that can clean out old logs and such which will decrease it's size.

But just to let you know, the whole admin interface has changed completely in SMF so it might take you some getting used to and some learning.

Just make sure to backup the database before you attempt to upgrade.

df wrote: how hard is it to upgrade to smf? will it decrease the size of my DB by any? (ie: store messages compressed? etc?)..

i'm pushing over 50mb

You could set up a donation mechanism so that people who are completely addicted and are known here for stuffing your DB (say, me etc.) could donate if they wanted to, so your cost will go down for you.

Ive changed the pear error reporting to remove E_NOTICE, so the var by reference thing is not reported anymore...

hacky fix for time being...

Haha. If worst comes to worst, I'd be glad to host the FAQ...or at least a permanent mirror .