Weekend downtime, Sunday 29-NOV-2009

[Mr. Snazz]

Moving the forums to a new server, which will make it easier to keep everything up to date, and should mean less random downtime i'll also be updating us to the latest phpBB.

The downtime is planned for noon to 2pm pacific time.

Site address will stay the same, you will be redirected to the new server automatically.

[Mr. Snazz]

You may notice that I've finally fixed the event listing script.

The old one was a windows program, written in the days of the dinosaurs, which no longer worked. The new one is a php script which runs server-side, a much better solution.

[logscaler]

Thanks for the event update.

It will make things easier to check out.

Just from looking at it, it seems to be a local event thing for Oregon. How far out does it search/announce for events?

[Mr. Snazz]

Its driven by a pocket query, which is set to generate daily with the following criteria:

1. Selected cache types: Event Cache, CITO Event, Mega-Event Cache
2. "Is Active"
3. Within Oregon

No other restrictions are placed on the query. So any event cache, which is active, and is within what geocaching.com considers to be Oregon (I'm not sure, for example, if an event were held on the Snake River, if it would count).

Expired events will currently only go away after they have been marked Inactive by the cache owners. I'll probably alter this behavior to show up to X expired caches at a time, so that we don't end up with a huge list.

If an event cache is scheduled far in the future, 2012 for example, it'll still show up as long as it is marked as "Active".

The script will start updating daily automatically tomorrow, once everything has been moved to the new server. I uploaded a test run to the current server on Friday, so that's why it hasn't updated for today.

[Mr. Snazz]

Change to new server went well. For a few days, you may see "potlatch.snazzware.com" in your address bar, instead of oregongeocaching.com/.org. This is temporary and will resolve itself once the DNS update propagates. Traffic from the old server will automatically be forwarded to the new server.

Please let me know if you run in to any problems.

[Mr. Snazz]

Known Issue: You may have some trouble with cookies until the DNS propagates. Under Firefox on Windows, the site forgets my login frequently. Under Linux, it remembers it. Mileage will vary depending on browser and security settings, but it will clear itself up in a few days.

[klossner]

[quote="Mr. Snazz"]Expired events will currently only go away after they have been marked Inactive by the cache owners.[/quote]

You can make them go away as they happen by checking "have not been found." As soon as somebody logs the event, it drops out of the next PQ result.

Hmm, new board problem: I have "Enable BBCode by default" set in my profile, but when preparing this note I see "BBCode is OFF" and no apparent way to turn it on.

[Mr. Snazz]

Thanks for the bbcode note, I'll check it out.

Also thanks for the tip about filtering by found; I think I'll leave it the way it is though, as I kinda like showing a certain number of past events.

[Mr. Snazz]

Hmm, new board problem: I have "Enable BBCode by default" set in my profile, but when preparing this note I see "BBCode is OFF" and no apparent way to turn it on.

I've checked a few places but haven't found an obvious cause yet...

Have you tried logging out and back in? Also, which web browser / browser version are you using?

[klossner]

[quote="Mr. Snazz"]Have you tried logging out and back in?[/quote]
Yes.
[quote]Also, which web browser / browser version are you using?[/quote]
SeaMonkey 1.1.8 for Windows XP SP1.

Another couple of bits: if I reply in this thread, BBCode is OFF. If I reply in the Mapwel thread in the General topic, BBCode is ON.

[Mr. Snazz]

Very interesting! I bet some setting got munged during the database transfer (was going from Postgresql 7 to Postgresql . I'll tinker with it some more, thanks for the info!

[bigeddy]

You may notice that I've finally fixed the event listing script. ...

Thanks! Now if only we had some local events to list.

[Shotgun & Peashooter]

[quote="bigeddy"][quote="Mr. Snazz"]You may notice that I've finally fixed the event listing script. ...[/quote]
Thanks! Now if only we had some local events to list. :|[/quote]

OK, Jill and I and Bowhunter & Beadmaker (newer to geocaching, and great friends) are working on an event in the near future. Maybe a New Years Eve Fool-A-Palooza?????? Just trying to figure out a spot that everyone can gather than will not cost an srm and a leg, and be big enough for everyone. Any suggestions?????

Now another problem I see.... I can not use BB Code, I have it checked as on, but when I try to quote, you see what happens.... I says BB Code is off in my reply, but in user prefs it is set to on.... Sorry Snazz, I know what a PIA this type of crap is...... thanks for your work....