Monday, September 12, 2016

Community Forum is Up.

The login should now work on the Community forum.

For those interested, listen to what the problem was. I spent probably eight hours trying to repair the issue. I finally gave up and had the engineers at my host restore the database from Friday's backup. It's a big database so it took a few hours. It still did not help. 

I decided to go look at the setting again which I had done at least 50 times. The settings contain about 30 values. One of the values is the URL to the forum. some how it had changed from http://www.stevedgood.com/community/ to http://stevedgood.com./community/. That's right it was missing the "www". Technically you should not need the "www" but in this case the forum software wanted it. Luckily another person had the same problem a few years ago and had written it up in the support forum. 

To make a long story short "www" cost me about ten hours of work. :)  Gotta love these things.