Server Upgrade This Weekend 2025-05-24

@wendell I can reply to you but not post separately.

@landbutcher464mhz You can't start a new topic?

No but I replied to @gary_g then no more.....

Yay!

Finaly logged in again and able to post.

Alright everyone, I'm hopeful that I've gotten to the bottom of the problem and fixed it, but I have to request your help again to make sure.

Just cleared cookies and browsing history on Chrome. 

Logged in and successfully posted to the topic  I created the other day. 

Lets see what happens here. 

IT'S WORKING @wendell , it's working  ! ! ! ! 

Test post from Android, Samsung tablet. 

I did some o' that fancy "learnin" stuff ya'll talk about from time to time. I would like to thank @mathteacher for his masterful wizardry in pointing me the right direction. I ended up finding what was up and got it fixed.

I already knew that this website needs to have some cranked-up PHP settings in order to work properly. What I didn't know is that I needed to dig a bit further and make some other changes in NGINX that essentially matched the PHP settings. I'm not sure why things worked on the old server but I did have some help on that move. The guy that helped me was pretty well-versed in server configs, so I suspect he had taken care of that stuff for me.

But look at me, I learned something new on the last day of my 57 years on this Earth so far.

Also, THANK YOU to everyone who has been trying to get this thing to work and has reported information to me. It was all very helpful and I actually managed to fix/improve a few other things along the way, thanks to your feedback. Now let's all take a bow in @mathteacher's general direction. 🙂 🍺 

Oh, I also wanted to thank you all for your patience with me when I kept asking you to clear cookies and caches. I wasn't implying that the problem was on your end; I request that because it's the only way to get truly accurate results when testing something -- we have to make sure that your stuff is on the up and up before we can know for sure that your feedback contains good information.

Anyway, I have a few other matters to tend to here to polish things up a bit, but I may not get to those until this weekend. I'm behind on client work now!

If it ain't one thing, it's another. After another 27 million rounds of troubleshooting and testing, I'm hoping it works for you now. Please test and let me know!

meow

bzzz

Cleared cookies in Chrome. Not the browsing history. 

Loaded up and logged in OK. 

Posting this as a test. 

Went without a hitch ! 

Crossing fingers and toes!

Who knew a simple server move would end up so complicated? I've done it a million times with other websites, but this one always finds ways to throw me for a loop.

Anyhoo, I'm glad it's working now... anyone still having any issues?

Oh, I have issues ! But the sites working. When I get to posting items in the Fundraiser I will let you know if any issues crop up.