Today, around 12 noon my time, the internet connection died. It was fixed almost after 9 hours.
Not a good way to start, I tell you that. And unfortunatelly I did not have time to setup a failsafe DNS configuration so that it would use my old ISP. but I wil do it tomorrow 😀 I don’t think I’ll have enough time for it today.
Archive for June, 2009
My new ISP started on the wrong foot
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Started actual joomla migration
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Today I started the actual migration of the Delphi Section.
I migrated most of the articles and files but there is still left the UI and WMI articles and some non-article files
Because the site is hand made I cannot write a script to do the migration which is why I am doing it manually and thus it will take some time.
After the Delphi section there are still some other sections that need to be migrated before I will go live.
And part of the migration is to set up 301 redirects for each file. Now this is going to be a real pain.
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Officially moved to new ISP
Monday, June 29th, 2009See below the speedtests for my old ISP and new ISP.
new speedtest
old speedtest
I already written 2 scripts that allow me to change from one connection to the other. The next step is to write a script, conjobed, that will check for internet on main connection (new ISP), switch to secondary (old ISP) if failed, and then switch back to main when it’s back.
And finally, I will have to find some DNS software similar to the one google uses. so that when you access my server it will use the IP that is online 🙂
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Migrating your site to joomla, part 2
Monday, June 29th, 2009Following up on http://blog.ciuly.com/website/how-to-actually-migrate-your-site-to-joomla/
I found a nice extension to do image only menus: Â http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/structure-&-navigation/menu-systems/image-menus/4855/details
as for multilevel categories, I am using joomresources: Â http://joomsuite.com/index.php?option=com_resource&view=article&article=16&Itemid=12
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New ISP
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Yesterday I got connected to my new ISP. Today, I installed my 3rd network card into my linux server and made the connections. Everything works fine.
Tomorrow, I will set the new ISP as primary connection and the old ISP as secondary/backup connection. I don’t know yet how I will do it but I’ll find a way. I will most probably change my inernet.check script to check for internet connection using ping for example and if primary is down, set secondary up otherwise set primary back on. It is an idea 🙂
And the next step after that will be to set up DNS servers that will switch from one ISP to the other AND to my backup server which is already running in another location somewhere.
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Auto tweeting
Friday, June 26th, 2009How to actually migrate your site to joomla
Thursday, June 25th, 2009I decide a while ago that I need to change my attitude, lose my dream of creating a CMS in C interfacing as CGI/SSI and get my site out nice and clean like everybody else.
So after comparing reviews and recommendations, I got stuck with joomla.
Now, I don’t know about you technical guys, but I find joomla very … weak. For one, it does not support sub-categories. you have a section and a category and that’s about it. In my case, I have a lot o sub-categories. So this called for a plugin (not yet installed).
What really pissed me of is that my main page (now) has a very nice image-only horizontal and a vertical menu. I used gimp to create the images which look very nice compared to what my site actually looks like 🙂 So I spent the ENTIRE day trying to figure out how in the name of God I can create an image only menu in joompla. Fact is, I tried a lot of stuff, including the core menu functions, nothing worked. I even installed a plugin called simplelists but to no avail.
So, sinceextensions are slowing things down and complicating everything, I decided todrop that, especially sice somebody on te joomla forum said that the core supports this thing (read more here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=304&t=262138&p=1744717#p1744717 )
As of this writing, that guy has not yet replied to my inquiry, BUT, being a genius that I am ( 😀 ), I discovered something very amazing: RAW Html module. Yeah, I get to place whatever html code I want wherever I want it. This is pretty neat because I just copy-pasted my menu code andvoila, it’s up and running. It’s that simple.
Whoe the hell need extensions andstuff when you can have your own custom html wherever?! You have some html/js/css code you need to migrate and there is no apparent way to do it? Raw html.
Who said life is not easy? 🙂 All we need now is multilevel categories and I could say that all is ok.
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The blog is live on twitter
Thursday, June 25th, 2009I just installed 2 auto tweeter plugins, one of them is working, the otehr is not 🙂 This basically means that from now on all my posts will get published to tweeter. Unfortunatelly, the plugin that did work, is pretty simple and does not have too much options. I hope I’ll be able to get the other one running.
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Secunia PSI 1.5 is out
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Joomla ftp layer configuration
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009As many, I was also having problems with the ftp layer configuration at step 5, getting
The FTP settings are not valid or your FTP server is not compatible with Joomla!: The function “STOR” failed.
I tried most of the suggestions in some of the topic from the joomla forum, but to no avail. Including but not limited to iptables configuration, ftp configurations, etc. Finally, I figured to chown the files and folders to the ftp user. That solved my problem.