From: Constantin P. <con...@ru...> - 2008-09-28 00:46:22
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Hi everyone! There are news about the website issue. It actually seemed like a permission problem at first, but the problem is actually much bigger then that. Because of some stupid restrictions on sourceforge, the mediawiki-upload is tightend to a subdir outside of htdocs, called persistent. This dir was completely deleted by sourceforge and all symlinks to the dir gave strange errors, since they pointed to nothing. Same thing to the media- wiki config dir, but that seems to have no noticable results. Auria just got the file-upload running again, with a little help of mine, and is now taking screenshots, uploading them and filling the gaps. We still have a little hope, Joerg has done a backup (mustn't be very recent, anything younger then 2 years might help), else we will have a whole lot of work coming up (think of tutorials and all that...). To see the positive aspects about it: Auria and I have learned a lot about our web-presence and the related filestructure today. I actually plan to use this new knowledge to improve the infrastructure a little - more about this later. I have created a little cron-job on my own pc to take backups of our web- content regularly, so nothing like this should happen again - I hope. We can be glad that our sql-table seems to work still nice, but someone should probably backup that one as soon as possible and on a regular basis - loosing the database would probably by a disaster. I hope I have mentioned everything worth, Greetings, Constantin |