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“My site is down! Fix it!” Redux

by Sean Conner
on Friday, October 06, 2006

Since I wrote the last article this site has been down a few times, and no, it wasn't because of any networking issues.

The site was actually down.

Currently, this site is hosted on my workstation at Pick // Internet Services—it has yet to be moved to an actual server and in the meantime, the site has been down twice. Technically. Okay, down days at a time, but it was down twice.

Technobabble

The first time was due to a slight design misfeature of the blogging software I use (which I wrote). I can't really classify it as a bug as more of a debugging feature that should not have been enabled, was enabled and the blogging engine could not open up the debug log file since the system had automatically deleted it, and in such an instance, the blogging software won't run if it can't open the log file.

Also, I forgot that when I reboot my workstation, the webserver doesn't come up automatically.

Oops.

That will change in the next few days as this site is moved to a proper web server. And it will get its own domain name as well. So the site should be more … available … in the immediate future.

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