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  1. I've added a redirect from /download-the-mod/ to /downloads/ so the correct downloads page should be reached if someone finds the old download link
  2. I've restarted some services and it appears to be back for me. Please let me know if anything on the wiki still isn't working.
  3. Just want to get a sense of the current server performance since I haven't had to manually intervene for around a week.

    Is it feeling better, or is anyone still running into issues?

  4. Server definitely still has some issues. I think I've narrowed down where the issue is, so I'll take a proper look after work.

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    2. thebigh

      thebigh

      I noticed that too. Same time every day.

    3. thebigh

      thebigh

      I noticed that too. Same time every day.

    4. taaaki

      taaaki

      That's pretty much it. There are several system check/maintenance scripts that run daily. These were not sufficiently staggered, so they pile up and the system gets progressively slower as some of these scripts are disk intensive. Strange thing is that this wasn't such a problem before the system upgrade, so I suspect that there were some changes to these scripts that increased their impact.

      I've now staggered them a bit better, so we'll see how it plays out tomorrow morning. If that doesn't work, I'll have to dig a bit deeper.

  5. All services hosted on the server were sluggish. I've rebooted and it appears to be better. Let me know if there are still issues.

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    2. taaaki

      taaaki

      I'm not noticing much difference compared to after the reboot yesterday. Are you getting those 504 errors, or just feels slower?

    3. Jetrell

      Jetrell

      I've not noticed any problems since the reboot but I didn't get 504s before the reboot but did notice that it was a bit slow...

    4. thebigh

      thebigh

      For much of yesterday I couldn't get onto the forum or the wiki at all. It was just 504 504 504 504 504. So far today it's been fine.

  6. I think it wasn't fully implemented during the initial upgrade from IPB 3.x to 4.x, but if it's working again, may as well keep it.
  7. Updates made. Missions page should now present https links for the mirrors that support it.
  8. Thank you. I'll also have a go at rewriting the urls to HTTPS for all mirrors except the mstrmnds.de one and see about asking for https to be implemented there as well. I'll also have to check on those missing files from darkmod-alt02 (those should sync automatically, so I'll need to see why they're not coming through).
  9. I could try updating the mission details page to 'upgrade' the urls to HTTPS, but I'll need to check that all the mirrors are actually configured for HTTPS first.
  10. I managed to use the attached curl logs to find some of the relevant entries in the logs and correlate those back to a source IP. All the request from the source IP return 206 status (partial content success) and further checks on just the name of the file that was failing also return 206 (or 200 in the case of direct browser downloads). Nothing out of the ordinary in the web server error logs (other than failed requests for FMs that aren't on the server). The darkmod-alt02 server isn't running a firewall, so it can't be that. And am I correct in understanding that this isn't just happening with this one server or is it isolated to darkmod-alt02?
  11. Chrome is not liking the http:// links in an https:// page it seems. Live-editing the page in Chrome DevTools to make one of the URLs https:// seems to have done the trick. We'll need to update the mirror URLs to https, but the issue there is that I don't know if all the current mirrors support https. My two mirrors and missions.thedarkmod.com do though.
  12. Hmm, I updated the software on that mirror server over the weekend. Giving it a restart for good measure. Is it just the darkmod-alt02 server causing the issue at the moment?
  13. Will have a look at this after the pending system updates.
  14. Once we've fully moved away from the old installer, I should be able to implement a redirect from http:// to https://
  15. Can you log out and back in again. My change didn't stick for one of the groups, so I've fixed that one now as well.
  16. I think I figured it out. The people having issues with profile picture uploads had secondary groups associated with their accounts. Some of these secondary groups had the "Do not allow profile photo uploads" setting checked (why, I'm not sure), and this is likely overriding the primary group that does permit profile photos. I've updated all the relevant groups to allow profile photo uploads. Could the affected users ( like @Dragofer, @demagogue, @Destinedand @stgatilov) please see if you are now able to change your profile picture.
  17. That's strange. I just tried to register a new account for myself and I received the mail. He might need to check spam filters?
  18. Email is working now, so I've re-enabled registrations
  19. I've disabled registrations for now since email isn't working properly on this temporary host, so people wouldn't get their registrations emails. Will try sort that out tomorrow and open up registrations again.
  20. I've installed a dark / night theme. Just select it from the Theme list selector at the bottom of the page. Hopefully that acts as a reasonable stop-gap.
  21. The forum theme change wasn't intentional. It's an unfortunate byproduct of a forum software update (see here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20010-it39s-alive33/&do=findComment&comment=438046). I'll have a look at installing a generic dark theme as an option while I work on importing and updating the old TDM theme to be compatible with the new forum version.
  22. I'll at least see if I can find a dark theme that I can install while I sort out the proper DarkMod theme. I can't stand all the white. In other news, I've got the wiki and missions list up and running ?
  23. Okay. So an update is in order. The server's disk was replaced on Tuesday and I am busy reinstalling everything. As I make progress, I will try to bring services back online as and when they are ready. As an interim measure, I have www.thedarkmod.com, forums.thedarkmod.com, and mirrors.thedarkmod.com up and running on one of my other servers. Are there any other services that are needed somewhat urgently? I suspect that we may want the missions list back for the in-game mission downloader. Thoughts? You will have noticed that the forums look rather different. I wasn't able to bring the forums over exactly as there were before due to incompatibilities with the newer versions of PHP and the old version of IP.Board that we were running. This will likely also be an issue when I setup the original server with updated OS and package versions. I've now upgraded the forums software from IP.Board 3.x to IP.Board 4.x and there are some significant changes that affect themes and other functionality. The new version doesn't seem to be as flexible in terms of configuration, so I'll have to figure out how to match the old setup as best I can. The theme and layout will need to be redone for IP.Board 4, but I won't have time for that this week. The default theme will just have to do for now. I'm not sure that everything is setup 100% correctly on the temp server, so expect some issues to crop up (e.g. URL rewriting currently isn't working properly). The forum software update was long overdue (old version went out of support months ago, meaning no security updates), so I will likely not attempt to get the old version working again. Please be patient while I try get the forums back to their former glory.
  24. I need to investigate newer server options, particularly ones with dual disks in some kind of RAID 1 / ZFS setup. Or go with VPS type options. But it's likely that these are going to be more expensive (current option is $29pm) to get the specs we need (disk space space is usually the issue here), so I may need to have a look in the donations thing again. I just remember that PayPal was a bit tricky in terms of tax & currency exchange regulations where I live. But for now I'm going to focus on getting this server stable, then I can find a new provider or hosting option and migrate services piece-by-piece.
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