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and it all continues……..

Finally back and running correctly.

It never actually went away but a lot of effort went into restoring functionality and all the data and details.

Wading around in mysql, phpadmin, plesk, import and export of tables, timeouts and poor responses.

Makes me wonder?

Is the saga over……………

Continuing saga of the phpBB forum.

After more mucking around I decided to go back and look at the original database that a couple of days ago would not open, could not be viewed and caused timeouts.

It is now working correctly – or appears to be be.

Pointed the original phpBB config files back [...]

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IT at its best

Amazing stuff all this technology.

Amazing how a small image known as an avatar can cause so much time and stress

Recent backups of phpBB have caused a small problem, avatars cannot be uploaded to a user account (rather they can be uploaded but the apache server takes control of the file permissions and [...]

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Are we all annonymous on the internet?

Social networking sites,

Auction and selling sites

Private web sites

Our details are spread all over the internet, do a quick search for just about anything eg telepoint heat exchangers and hits spring up all over the place. There will even be stuff that does not even seem to be related to the search terms [...]

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Virii in mySQL

Well a busy morning.

Corruption in an sql database can be a pain as can a lack of recent (as in yesterday) backups.

phpBB ceased responding, I think there was a down issue with the hosting server but my provider advises otherwise (we see nothing in the logs

Alll my sites are on the [...]

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