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Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:20 pm
by arsharpe
This is to let you know that
the forum may run slowly or be unavailable on the morning of Thur 15 Apr
Hopefully not many people will be using it during a weekday morning.
During this time the forum will be synchronised with the new BVS membership system. This involves automatically creating forum users for current BVS members.
The site will be left active during this time and if all goes well you shouldn't notice anything.
I suggest that you don't post anything during this period until notified here, as it maybe lost if we have to re-instate the database backup.
All precautions will be taken to minimise the downtime.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:04 am
by arsharpe
This has been successfully completed without any visible problems.
Thanks for your patience and you can continue posting as normal.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:38 pm
by ChrisB
Yay we are still here
Nice one Rob
ChrisB
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:41 am
by timpootle
The old BVS wordpress website has been removed now that we are all happily arrived here. If you have any old bookmarks they should be deleted.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:20 pm
by timpootle
Forum software was updated this afternoon from 3.0.6 to 3.0.8 - If you notice anything odd, PM or email me, or comment here.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:54 pm
by timpootle
Jeremy wrote:There seems to be a glitch in the PM system somewhere. I sent one this morning and it worked fine, I received a reply. When I went to reply, it gave me this error on a white screen:
"Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 737280 bytes) in /home/sites/batteryvehiclesociety.org.uk/public_html/forums/includes/utf/data/utf_compatibility_decomp.php on line 2"
Undeterred, I tried again, with a new PM, rather than a reply, but got the same error. I then switched machines and tried to send a PM from my laptop, but got the same error message. My guess is that it's something in the forum software, rather than at my end, although I can't say that the error message means much to me!
Jeremy
I've cracked it! Having spent over an hour trying to send a PM to Stuart, I've discovered that the error message is triggered by the "£" sign.
Substituting the word "pounds" for the "£" sign allows the PM to be sent.
Bizarre or what?
Jeremy
I think today's software upgrade has fixed this. You should now be able to type pound signs in your PMs. Please let me know if you find otherwise.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:48 pm
by ChrisB
Yep works here Tim
No major probs so far with the upgrade, lets hope this might keep the spammers at bay
ChrisB
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:54 pm
by ChrisB
Got this error a couple of times this evening, not sure if anyone else has got it or not, let us know if you do and it will be looked into
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
Lost connection to MySQL server at 'sending authentication information', system error: 32 [2013]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
ChrisB
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:38 pm
by timpootle
You may have seen the site disappear for a few minutes this evening. We have moved folders about behind the scenes in order for redirection from ...iety.org, ...iety.com and ...iety.co.uk to all point at
www.batteryvehiclesociety.org.ukShould be fine now.
Re: Web and Forum site status.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:41 pm
by timpootle
Forum software was updated this afternoon from 3.0.8 to 3.0.10 - If you notice anything odd, PM or email me, or comment here.