Re: cal 20 site

Allen wrote: >If I could get the contents of the site I could put much of it back up. But that may be difficult. I just tried the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. You might want to try it later to see if it captured the content at some point. Alfred Alfred Poor 1973 Tartan 34C #288 "Jambalaya"

The issue here Alfred, is that way back machine is good for html content that is static. ie: coded pages. The site was upgraded last year or the year before to a dynamic php site with a mysql database. So the pages are rendered on demand with content changing. The forums is where the real data is, all those conversations. One reason I dont like forums as there is no backup, email lists are great for that as there is always backup regardless of what system you use. Good idea however...;) /ch

Hay Alfred; The admin/tech contact for the domain responded that he is no longer involved with the class and provided two contacts. Those have been emailed so lets see what comes back. His email address is in Alaska and they responded that they have not hosted the site in years. The registration is via godaddy.com so its probably on a godaddy server somewhere. From what I saw a month ago, it was broken. and you were getting the mysql error page, now you get the not authorized stuff which means its really broken as html requests are trying to access the database directly which of course is not allowed hence the 'not authorized" page display. Anyways lets see what the secondary contacts come back with as its important to a degree as this was the home site for the local 20 class and fleet. A simple fix here as most fleet sites are not being maintained is to put up a central cal20.com site where each fleet has their own sub section and domain eg: cal20.com/victoria. Just centralize the web presence on one server, reduce costs and one admin for the overall site with sub-admins for each fleet. Its going to be tricky however to get it all coordinated and then get the DNS stuff changed. Folks will need to play along. /ch

Chuck responded really fast, which is good. Means he knows what he's doing. The site should be back up in a few weeks. All is well in Cal land..:) /ch