Legion World Forums LEGION WORLD Science Police Headquarters Problems getting worse...

That is, when it loads, since it's just been down for half an hour for me.

PS: Pov, when the smilies don't load, there's not much point in using image smilies :-þ

Despite the smilies not loading at the moment, Gary needs these right now:

Oddly enough both Pov & Rocky's smilies are showing up for me. Most of the avatars are now showing up as well but were not as late as this morning. Most of the other graphics on the pages are not loading nor is anything with a date or time.

Since I'm at work and don't have the site bookmarked I always just do a search on Yahoo or Google and then follow the link here. Today when doing so, I got the following error message.

"We're Sorry!
Legion World has moved to a new server.

We hope to have everything up and running again soon.

In the meantime, you can still utilize the Message Board without the images and javascripts.

Apache Server at legionworld.net"

The words "Message Board" were a link which brought me directly to the site.

Don't know if that helps identify the problem at all or if it just confuses the matter but I thought I should report it to Gary just in case.

Interesting. Since I didn't set up that message that means that globat did.

I appreciate them telling me that they've moved me. Sheesh! No wonder things aren't working.

Shows how often you use your front page NC [Actually, are they allowed to do that?]

No images at all are working for me now, even the Online/Offline interlac and the Profile/Edit/Reply/etc icons that did show up before.

Same here Nightcrawler. No images or dates. Also had the same message as Vee when I did a Google search.

Are these people moving you one byte at a time?

They must be punishing me for not buying their latest scam! I'll try to do something about this this weekend. This is so ridiculous.

Hi!

Sorry about this mess. Since globat's only response to me thus far is -

- I've decided to take my business elsewhere. Unfortunately, I won't be able to do the actual move and DNS changes until probably this weekend.

I'll just have to see how my schedule goes. The last few days I've been training people, so I haven't even had a chance to do my real work yet this week.

*rolls eyes and snorts derisively*

So they've no plans to actually fix anything? [You should have sent them to http://www.legionworld.net/ - or indeed, http://www.legionworld.net/asbfwsbfvijasbfjbewsjifvnesw/ as any non-MB page, whether it should exist or not gives the same error]

I did. But, that was the only e-mail they bothered to send to me regarding the situation. Despite me asking several times for them to fix whatever they did.

Again sorry about the last several days.

globat found and resolved the issue for us.

Yay!

And thanks Gary for doing everything you did/do to make this place so terrific.

Here's what I just wrote at the Yahoo! group to get everyone up to speed about last night/this morning -

After finally getting Legion World's images and javascripts, etc. back
up, globat did something catastrophic with our server (and or some of
the files - erasing all data in most of them).

Ordinarily, this would be no big deal as I would just replace what's
missing. Unfortunately, I was backing up some of the critical files
when this occurred (overwriting my last back up - never doing that
again) and now I don't have replacements. This was in preparation for
our move to a new server already purchased.

I've asked Scott for the ones I no longer have, but his last back up
of those files is in February (on his home computer) due to globat's
FTP program time-outs and such making it difficult to back up the site
regularly.

What's effected now is post counts and some other behind-the-scenes
files as well as several Member files.

- Hopefully, everything is back to normal. If you notice anything please post it here and I'll try to fix it.

Er...topic "DC Universe/ LSH 3 Worlds (spoilers)" in the Legion forum no longer exists. I do not have a recent back up, nor do I have one here at work. Once I get home tonight...I'll restore what I can.

Gary I may have it at home but I won't be there until after 7:00 tonight. Just let me know if you still need it. Last night I was able to back up the forums (at least I hope I was) while I was looking for the other files.

Ummm yeah... ditto?

Yeah. If you can check it. If I did back it up last night I guarantee it was the corrupted version.

Sorry Gary. By the time it got around to that thread it must have been your corrupted version. I have an empty .cgi file (#5108) that must be the thread in question.

Yeah. I'll see what I have when I get home in about an hour.

Looks like it's gone for good. Does anyone remember who started the thread? I'd like to give credit where credit is due.

It was one of mine.

I'm ready to move us to a new host! I've tested things out at the place and it's actually more compatible with the Classic software than this server ever was (and moving here was one of the reasons I bought the UBB.Threads software last year).

Anyway, as soon as we stop new posts and PMs here and I move the rest of the files over...

I then will initiate the DNS transfer to the new server(s) which usually takes about 24 hours to populate throughout the world (it means that when you type in "www.legionworld.net" it shows the new server version and not this one anymore).

I hate to take things away just as they begin to work again, so I'll check in periodically to see if things slow down. Either way, around 11ish Pacific time tonight...the board will be visible, but blocked for new content until we are moved (no new posts, replies, or PMs after 11pm Pacific).

The board will resume after the servers switchover.

And done.