Welcome to our new home!

[Cleaner44]

Nice, very nice!

 

[Bryan]

Thanks. The banner photo looks great. I love that one too.

Which machine a URL takes you to is a function of the DNS system, not the URL itself. If the URL begins with "www.ronpaulforums.com" then you're going to the same internet server no matter what follows domain_name.com.

In the first URL "external.php" is a page name, in the same way "external.htm" is a page name........ the page does not exist so you get a normal "404 Page Not Found"

The 2nd URL is looking for a folder named "external" and the server by default adds "/index.htm" or "/default.htm" or "/index.php" or "/default.php" depending on the operating system the web server is running.

Looking for a page that doesn't exist is different from looking for a folder than doesn't exist and produces different error responses. The missing folder behavior will depend again on the server OS and how it is set up.

Either way, both URL's are taking you to the same machine (or might be a bank of servers) because your domain name is assigned to a particular I.P. address that lives on only one machine (or server bank) on the interwebs.

Thanks. It doesn't seem to be a folder issue since external and external.ph give the same result, so the example could have been:

https://ronpaulforums.com/external.php <- 404 error
https://ronpaulforums.com/external.ph <- goes to the new site, with an error.

I agree, this is some DNS issue. I've got call in with Josh who does the DNS work, I think there is some left over records that are sending anything not www.ronpaulforums.com over to the old server still, and if it doesn't resolve at the old server then it ends up going to the new server.

I'll see what it looks like... Good to have someone to talk with on this.

 

[Bryan]

Here's one: I attempted to find a post I was readily able to locate on the other using the keyword "dictionary". It no longer appears. The thread in question was started by myself, IIRC, some years ago where I made note of the incredible absence of proper definitions of words such as "crime" and "law". There was a goodly exchange and some rather significant progress was made toward establishing sound definitions. Search no longer yields that thread, and I was very much looking forward to copying that work.

Any hints?

Yes. The search is still indexing... and it somehow went haywire, filled the disk and took the site down this morning for a while.

Hopefully we don't see more of this...

Let's see how the indexing works. We have a robust search solution on the back-end.

 

[Bryan]

Got "An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later." for a while this morning.

Seriously, if there's any way we can pitch in, please reach out. I'm not a web developer, but I work in high-tech (engineering) and I can provide useful suggestions for you. Getting some kind of DDoS protection (eg Cloudflare, and there are others) is cheap and easy and will not only protect the website from attackers, it will make it load faster and work better for legitimate users, by eliminating load on the server from attackers.

I know. It was horrifying... I'm thinking, this is why we moved... and here we are.

As said above, the search indexing went haywire, filled the disk and took the site down this morning for a while.

I do have various options for DDoS protection, including enabling Cloudflare with a few clicks. Right now, it seems very fast.

Thanks!!

 

[Anti Federalist]

Thanks for keeping the site going and all the hard work involved.

 

[Bryan]

Thanks for keeping the site going and all the hard work involved.

For Liberty!

 

[unknown]

Thanks for keeping the site going and all the hard work involved.

This right here x 1000

 

[unknown]

This will always be my favorite Ron Paul picture.

The pic and the headline.

 

[Intrepid]

Not a must have but a nice-to-have is "Go to Last Post" which takes you to the bottom of the last page instead of the top.

Handy feature especially for the "Best Picture" thread.

@Bryan I figured out when you're looking at "New Posts" which is usually the first thing I do, and you click the thread title, it takes you to the end of the thread which is most excellent.

So this one can be taken off the list

 

[jct74]

Keep me posted. Some of this could be from multiple accounts, and multiple tabs. Not sure I can change it, it may be a platform issue.

I haven't gotten that message since Sunday, so the problem seems to have resolved itself. Everything is coming together nicely. You should send out a mass email maybe after you've put the final touches on,

 

[Bryan]

@Bryan I figured out when you're looking at "New Posts" which is usually the first thing I do, and you click the thread title, it takes you to the end of the thread which is most excellent.

So this one can be taken off the list

Thanks. Nice. I've got a lot of figuring out here too.

 

[Intrepid]

Thanks. Nice. I've got a lot of figuring out here too.

Takes time. Overall though, I think the move has been great. The rest of the forum appears to feel the same.

Looks great. Works great.
.

 

[CaptUSA]

Great to have the forums back up and running! I gave up a while ago. Every now and then, I clicked my bookmark but nothing came up. Then today I tried to do a google search and lo and behold the new forums were out there!! Thanks, Bryan!

Maybe I'm missing it, but is there an alert somewhere when your posts have been quoted by someone else?

 

[pmbug]

Maybe I'm missing it, but is there an alert somewhere when your posts have been quoted by someone else?

Yes. Red alert bell in the top right corner of the page/screen.

 

[Intrepid]

Great to have the forums back up and running! I gave up a while ago. Every now and then, I clicked my bookmark but nothing came up. Then today I tried to do a google search and lo and behold the new forums were out there!! Thanks, Bryan!

Maybe I'm missing it, but is there an alert somewhere when your posts have been quoted by someone else?

Gotta make sure you have alerts enabled if you haven't already. The first thing I did was disable all notifications, then went back and enabled when people quote me, message me, etc.

.

 

[unknown]

Great to have the forums back up and running! I gave up a while ago. Every now and then, I clicked my bookmark but nothing came up. Then today I tried to do a google search and lo and behold the new forums were out there!! Thanks, Bryan!

Maybe I'm missing it, but is there an alert somewhere when your posts have been quoted by someone else?

There he is.

 

[unknown]

This will always be my favorite Ron Paul picture.

The pic and the headline.

Super boss.

 

[ClaytonB]

@Bryan

Just wanted to say thanks for porting the forums over and standing the server back up! The filter feature on the New Posts page is so much nicer than the old forum which constantly marked everything as read on refresh....

 

[jmdrake]

So.....it looks GREAT! And am I to understand now that any video can be embedded just using the "MEDIA" tags and we don't have different things for different video platforms? Or do we still have to use RUMBLE tags for example?

 

[unknown]

So.....it looks GREAT! And am I to understand now that any video can be embedded just using the "MEDIA" tags and we don't have different things for different video platforms? Or do we still have to use RUMBLE tags for example?

Yo, whaddup.