server move in progress

By anders pearson 22 Jan 2003

you may have noticed that you were redirected here.

i’ve got thraxil.net setup now with the new codebase on a temporary server. i’m redirecting thraxil.org and thraxil.com to thraxil.net for the time-being. things will be on thraxil.net for probably a week or two while i rebuild the machine that thraxil was once on and will be on again. once that’s rebuilt i’ll get the code set back up there and have thraxil.net redirect back to thraxil.org. that should make it about as painless as a server move really can be.

if you look closely, you may notice a few new things: 1) speed. everything’s running under mod_perl with a new, more aggressive caching strategy. 2) the urls of pages should be a little nicer. instead of things like ‘node.pl?nid=4203’, ‘diary.pl?user=matti’, and ‘keyword.pl?keyword=fnord’ we now have ‘/nodes/4203’, ‘/users/matti/diary’, ‘/keyword/fnord’ and similar urls for most of the site. this is all through the magic of apache’s mod_rewrite module. and finally 3) bugs. there seem to be some problems with how i’ve configured the module i’m using to cache database connections and i’m seeing some sporadic errors. if you get a server error, try reloading the page a few times; usually that will do it. there are probably other errors too since it’s a fairly new and untested codebase. if you encounter problems that don’t go away with a couple quick reloads, let me know.

also, if you’re into tweaking your diary templates, you’ll need to take a good look at things to figure out the changes in the site organization. i’m going to run a script through the existing templates and hopefully get them all in line.

Tags: meta server swap