Re: [Phpwiki-talk] help?

[Marjorie R. <mro...@ma...>]

>'directory' variable.  this points to the directory where the
>wiki_pagedb.db2 file lives which is what stores all the data.
>
>if you didn't configure this file to start with it stores everything in
>/tmp which means that you're gonna loose all your data everytime your >isp reboots their web server. :-(

That's exactly what happened. I hadn't looked at the wiki in 10 very busy days, and the server was set to delete such unused /tmp files. Honestly, sincerely, this wiki is a truly good thing, which truly, really and truly again could use some better documentation on how to install and configure it. 

I had started to try to upgrade to mysql, and got plain stuck there, as some may recall. (I remained stuck to this day.)

Today when I got the one-two punch that my wiki was gone, and then that it was REALLY gone (not backed up - my ISP admits to "screwing up") I felt sick to my stomach, as I was just on the verge of picking up my coauthor at the train station so that I could show her this cool collaberative web environment, along with all the neat content I'd added to it. 

Lots of things went wrong, including the /tmp directory, the lack of a backup that should've been done (I'm paying for this server, they admit that they blew it), and even that the zip file utility was not as well-documented as it could've been, and helpful guidance from this group was all based on something apparently more recent than the 1.2. I had tried to take that snapshot, and had failed at that too.

This is a great group! I respect you! all! And your skill, and the cool inclusive project that we're all building. I'm just trying to document what went wrong, though slightly too tired to do so.

I was able to retrieve off of a single hard disk cache one of my main files. I definitely lost some stuff, which my ISP is trying to track down from deleted files, though apparently there is some risk of screwing things up more.

I'm going to:

a. try to be a better participant in this group by trying to resolve the  problem accessing this email using pine from a linux box (which I prefer). The web imail interface I'm using now is actually preventing me from being a full participant, (it's a terrible interface.) Sounds dumb, but it's just a barrier, for now.

b. I'm thankful that I found a cached version of one of my key files.

c. I plan to stick with this wiki, figure out how to not make it disappear, and probably offer some suggestions (when I'm not bleary-eyed, and still slightly naseous) on how to improve some of the default documentation.

My co-author and I are planning a visual guide to nutrition. The wiki seems like a good tool to help us to put it together. (Security is obviously a concern...) She's terrific, and he had a good meeting, despite my missing (gaping hole, the ocean swallowed it up, the earth is coming to an... okay, okay) content. 

I had shown this wiki to my boss. Maybe her computer will have some of my lost stuff....


Thanks guys, for responding right away, today. It helped.

Sincerely, tiredly, (forgive me, and my adverb abuse)

Margie