I am not entirely sure what happened but it took out the blog for a few days, looks like from 2023-04-24T155831 until just a few minutes ago as I troubleshot the operation. I didn’t realize there was a problem until yesterday at work I went looking for a specific post to send to someone and it said, yeah no, not today. I spent roughly an hour this morning working on it. If you run into it not working, feel free to email me at support@joeware.net to alert me.
I tracked the issue down to an included file in .user.ini (the file hasn’t changed since December 2022). The path listed there for an include file was wrong (extra duplicated folder in the path /hermes/walnacweb04/walnacweb04 vs /hermes/walnacweb04) and I would have expected that to break back in December. I am guessing there was some back end file system shuffling going on that I am not privy too (Someone Else’s Servers) nor alerted about being mucked with. Thankfully (thanks entirely to me) I know how to troubleshoot functionally and am not limited to, like so many, troubleshooting by asking everyone what changed in their areas.
When I first looked, none of the startup type files had been changed in some time so I created a new test index.php with a simple print “Hello world”; and it also errored out so I theorized it was something being auto-included and had to go looking for what it could possibly be. Generally speaking, I am not happy to see any kind of deep hardcoded paths like that, why doesn’t it handle it in a more dynamic way where the only hardcoding is at the level that I manage… So up in the /joeware.net/blog/htdocs level.
Anyway, apologies to anyone out there that came here looking for something and was disappointed because the site was down. I don’t get paid for this but I do try to keep it running because I see the amount of usage the site has, still has.
joe
