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"My first Quiz" access denied.

The lovely "how I found boinng" flash page is corrupted.

The images are missing from most of the visual gags. Unless that is the gag.

The features all have the migration date, instead of the creation date.

Site goes to front page without the www ( http://boinng.com/tracker should use a 301 redirect to http://www.boinng.com/tracker ).

The site returns the front page instead of 404ing on /node/anything.

And no spoiler warning on the latest Dr Who gossip (please leave it behind a cut until Saturday evening) Sticking out tongue
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Tim's picture

1) "My first quiz" deleted

1) "My first quiz" deleted Smiling It was an experimental feature, not yet ready for primetime, and mostly broken at the moment - access was being denied on purpose!

2) The lovely "how I found boinng" page works okay here? http://www.boinng.com/node/2744

3)Yes they are and no it's not - due to problems with the backup of the old site, some files were misplaced/unavailable - I'm still repairing that as and when I know about them.

4) The old site never actually recorded the creation date, so it was either go with what the new site thought, or make something up. For the most part, I went with the current date. In reality, some of it was written years before even the old site was created!

5) I may find a better way of doing this, but it is completely intentional - and avoids some cookie problems that can creep in when both domains are used.

6) node/anything isn't the front page, it's the node page - a last x things posted page. There are Drupal reasons why it doesn't 404, I think.

7) spoiler smoiler - you're lucky, I almost posted todays article yesterday afternoon before the BBC embargo was lifted! It didn't appear at one minute past midnight by chance Eye-wink

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1,3,4,6) Cool. Thanks for

1,3,4,6) Cool. Thanks for looking!

2) Looked odd in Firefox, not IE. Ah! The object tag is split by a br tag. In fact the whole Macromedia bit has supurflous br tags.

5) I'm pretty sure you can do a redirect to the right page with mod-rewrite, but I've still not got arround to installing Apache, so I'll shut up.

7) Well done on the restraint. It's not that bad a spoiler, and you have my immense gratitude for warning me to beware this seasons spoilers before.
I wondered why it appeared halfway down the tracker.

Tim's picture

2) Aha - you're right, it

2) Aha - you're right, it was in the wrong format and Drupal was helpfully trying to mess it up with linebreaks. Fixed now (and it looks better, or at least bigger, even in IE).

5) You can, and it's already mod_rewrite that's doing it, but not with a 301 flag.. to be honest I know very little about rewrites and managed to break it a few times when I was setting it up, so in the end I went with what worked! I'll look into it again later.

7) In my defence, since the last episode began with Rose announcing her own imminent death, I figured the cat was mostly out of the bag now! Although, having said that, I think it's very unlikely that Rose is actually going to end the series dead as such (I honestly don't know what's going to happen this Saturday tho..)

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CrazyDave's picture

2) This looks like it may do

2) This looks like it may do the trick.

Tim's picture

Unfortunately I don't have

Unfortunately I don't have access to my httpd.conf, revelling in the world of shared hosting as I am... but, looking at the .htaccess file with existing rewrite rule, it should actually be a 301 redirect. In what way isn't it?

Edit - I get what you're saying now, pages on the "wrong" domain don't redirect to their correct counterpart, only to the front page.. can't seem to get the alternative working in htaccess tho, probably because I don't know what I'm doing! I'll look at it again later.

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Visual gags

These should be slightly more entertaining now, btw Smiling

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Lisa's picture

It's like a different

It's like a different language Sad

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Tim's picture

It's simple enough really,

It's simple enough really, we're just talking about how best to force a permanent redirect from one domain to a subdomain using a mod_rewrite rule in the Apache .htaccess file, only I'm having trouble passing a variable to the new path to allow the requested page to be redirected to the corresponding subdomain address, rather than just the subdomain itself.

Smiling

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Lisa's picture

Hmmm

Yeah simple....

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somechick's picture

bb tag

the [size] bb tag doesnt seem to work?

or is that only in my siggie?

edit: yep, only in my siggie (so i guess you can ignore this then)
edit2: or, apparently, i was doing something wrong. so you really can ignore this now. (:

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somechick's picture

character limits

altho there does seem to be a character limit for the 'signature' that isnt mentioned. i had to remove a nonbreaking space (&nbsp) to get my 2nd color tag to close (and not closing tags renders them useless - apparently the problem i was having with the 'size' tag in my siggie before - d'oh!).

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