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Server Move Almost Complete
June 14, 2007

I try not to post about difficulties and frustrations until I think I'm through them. The past two weeks of moving servers remind me why: had I posted day-to-day it would have read like someone self-destructing. And who wants to read that?

Aw, who am I kidding? Everybody does! The highlights:
  • Authorization form lost somewhere. Credit card number included. Will watch next few statements closely.
  • Premature/sudden association of alexwilson.com with the new server instead of the old one KOed the old site before the new server was even set up. Had things gone according to plan, I could have taken my time with the following issues, and then aimed the domain name at the new server when i was good and ready. Instead...
  • Attempted overnight uploads of 3+ gigs of Telltale audio to the new server failed fifteen minutes after I went to bed.
  • MySQL databases could not be imported into newer MySQL version. Copy-and-pasted over 500 Guidevines entries. Might use this as an excuse to cut my losses with the Carrboro Hill wiki.
  • Permissions issue on the new server made the CGI-BIN unusuable for the first 42 hours of the new server's life (required for the MT installation which is what I use to manage alexwilson.com and Telltale. First 12 hours I spent trying to work around it, thinking there was something I was doing wrong. Second 12 hours was spent trying to convince tech support that I wasn't doing something wrong. Took them 18 more hours to figure it out and fix it.
  • Within five minutes (no exaggeration) of receiving the email about the CGI issues being fixed, so I can finally begin work on the heart of my site... the power goes out on our block for two hours. At this point, yesterday afternoon, I'm starting to think I'm not going to hit my June 2 target.
  • MT imported all the entries and audiobook pages just fine, just not the basenames for the URLs or the structures of categories. So all the URLs for my journal and Telltale had to be manually changed to what they were or else a good portion of my internal linking (and all links from outside sites) would be broken.
  • And finally (I hope) LJcrosspost doesn't work with the current installation of MT. There's another (also abandoned) MT plugin called MTLJPost which I might have figured out, but there's no documentation for it, so here's hoping.
But it runs like a dream now. Twice as powerful a machine, a lot more bandwidth, and a few bucks cheaper per month to boot. Still plenty left to do on it, but nothing too urgent.

Some of it can even wait until morning.


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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say.

Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.



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