What Happened This Time?

[Msterbeau]

Mods? Any explanation for the down time?

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I logged in, saw the website was down... realizing that no admin changes had been made since before the site was down i assumed it must be a problem with the web host Invision Power Services.

So i put in a ticket basicly saying "its broke.. fix it." They fixed it, but didnt actually explain what was fixed. I asked for more detail anyhow though. No response as yet.

Really though, its so much better to have it 3rd party hosted like this. If it was box in someones house.. gah, that would suck when the inevitable server-down time came and we'd have to rely on joe-blow to fix the problem, assuming he was awake , not at work or otherwise occupied.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

*blah blah*

By the look of the error message the public_html/ directory was chmod'ed to 0. It's possible [caused]an error on the server side during a common maintenance script.

Regards,

Ryan Strauss

Senior Systems Engineer

Invision

Power Services, Inc.

When something is "chmoded to 0" that basically means that no one except an admin type could view the file or folder, and the "public html" folder is the one on the server that holds everything on DGN so if that somehow got chmodded to 0, we'd get the 404 error like most people were getting. 404 saying "you dont have permission to access this website/file/folder".

What "maintenance script" (little programs that run various daily/weekly/hourly chores behind the scenes on DGN) caused that i don't know since all the maintenance scripts that run on DGN have been running for at least 2-3 months with no changes. Random hiccup in a script that temporarily changes file permissions i guess is the

assumption there.

Ghosts in the machine are a lot more common as the complexity of computers increases.computers increases.

[Darus313]

When something is "chmoded to 0" that basically means that no one except an admin type could view the file or folder, and the "public html" folder is the one on the server that holds everything on DGN so if that somehow got chmodded to 0, we'd get the 404 error like most people were getting. 404 saying "you dont have permission to access this website/file/folder".

What "maintenance script" (little programs that run various daily/weekly/hourly chores behind the scenes on DGN) caused that i don't know since all the maintenance scripts that run on DGN have been running for at least 2-3 months with no changes. Random hiccup in a script that temporarily changes file permissions i guess is the

assumption there.

Ghosts in the machine are a lot more common as the complexity of computers increases.computers increases.

Hmmmmm....

Answer..

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