Category nuxx.net

Ah, I’ve now done a write-up on nuxx.net. So, feel free to give it a read if you are curious what sort of things are running behind the scenes on the box which hosts my (and others) sites to… well… host things.

For some reason (probably because of the size of my gallery and the number of sites hosted on the box) I’ve been having problems with Google being able to pull an XML sitemap for the gallery. Google was apparantly timing out while attempting to download it. I’m not sure if some change was made on their end recently regarding the length of time which could be spend during sitemap downloads or what, but I think I found a solution:

#!/bin/sh

newfile=~/www/nuxx.net/gallery/sitemap.xml.new
oldfile=~/www/nuxx.net/gallery/sitemap.xml

/usr/local/bin/curl -Sso $newfile http://nuxx.net/gallery/main.php?g2_view=sitemap.Sitemap

if [ -d ~/www/nuxx.net/gallery/sitemap.xml.new ]; then
mv $newfile $oldfile
fi

Yes, I know it’s a hack, but running it every six hours should work around the problem.

UPDATE: Yep, I just realized this won’t work. The test argument needs to be changed to -f (or -e) because it’s not a directory. Doh!

Server is back up. In short, I was using so much bandwidth that Waveform flipped my link back to 10Mb in an effort to cap bandwidth, then when that remained wholly saturated (nice to know that the to-internet link can saturate that, eh?) they turned off the port.

See here for a graph of it all: https://secure.nuxx.net/bandwidthd

Also, my site, any I host, and email is down right now. I’m upgrading MySQL, so it’s not currently running, making things which are backed by it not work.

Email is still coming in, it’s just being queued up. Once MySQL is back up things should be back to normal.

UPDATE @ 09:43 EST: MySQL upgrade done. Email and sites working again. Time to do the PHP upgrade, which will break all websites for a while. Sorry.

UPDATE @ 11:16 EST: All updates complete. Everything should be back to normal. Let me know if it isn’t.

I know I should be in bed, but I just made a change to my MediaWiki install which is very important. See, it’s my understanding that Google doesn’t like it very much if you are displaying AdSense ads on non-content pages.

Since MediaWiki has lots of these which I regularly use, I don’t want to upset Google by inadvertently serving myself a bunch of ads which are on these non-content pages.

The solution? Easy. Just don’t show ads on pages for users who are logged in. Since I’m using MediaWiki as a CMS, I’m the only person who will ever be logged in. So, to solve my problem, I wrapped the includes for the ad files in this:

<?php if($this->data['loggedin']!=1) { ?>
...
<?php } ?>

I know this is really basic, but I imagine others may want to know about it, so I’m documenting it here.