Some of our strip archives are out of comission

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:27 pm

I discovered tonight that my strips' archives are unavailable back beyond April 26 of this year; if I try to access any of them, I get a 404 error message. The files are still in The System; I checked via FTP.

And it's not just me; Legostar Galactica, Angry D. Monkey, and Tales of the Questor are having the same problem.

It's not universal, though; Role of the Die and Emergency Exit are still accessable.

Hopefully it's just a temporary glitch, but if not.. help!

Post by **Kisai** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:57 pm

anyone else still experiencing the problem as of 11pm Pacific?

I've run two maintenance items today, one of them re-did the directory permissions.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:32 pm

I just checked again and replied in the other thread. Yep, something's still playing silly buggers with mine from the start in June last year to April 26.

Someone'll figure it out.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:48 am

I'm not sure whether I need to mention it here, but my archives are also damaged; everything before 20050427 in my public_html/d/ folder is missing.

My thanks go out to Kisai and anyone else for working to fix this problem.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:03 am

Mine are down to, I've checked my FTP or whatever, the images are still there in the public comics folder, but the webpages in the d folder have dissapeared..
I'm just planning on cutting the images from the comic folder and putting them in in the comics folder in workspace.
I'm not sure if this will work though.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:54 am

Seems to be a pretty widespread error:

http://nahast.keenspace.com/d/20050425.html

did any of you happen to do a full update before it went on the blink, by any chance?

Zuri · Post by **Zuri** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:56 am

I'm still having this problem.
My archives disappear at http://shifters.keenspace.com/d/20050422.html

My front page wasn't generating either, there was a . being left out of the urls, so it was coming up http://www.shifterskeenspace.com as the domain.
I did a manual update and it seemed to fix it.

But my archives are still toast.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:57 am

did you try loading the missing pages to /workspace/comics and doing an update?

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sat May 28, 2005 3:25 am

Phalanx wrote:did any of you happen to do a full update before it went on the blink, by any chance?

I haven't done a full update in ages, so I'm guessing that isn't a universal cause.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat May 28, 2005 3:49 am

I did a full update.

Nightgaunt · Post by **Nightgaunt** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:59 am

I had the same problem. I just reloaded all of my old comics.

War · Post by **War** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:15 am

I'm looking through keenspace, haven't found anyone with an intact archive yet. Me, ghastly, Merc, K-Dawg, CJ, StrRedwolf, etc. None of us have archives.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:24 am

Had the archive problem as well, but I just moved the comics which didn't have /d pages out of /public_html/comics into /workspace/comics and did a full update. Seems to have cleared things right up.

JJcareksims · Post by **JJcareksims** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:26 am

Yeah all my strips back to 2002 to March 31 2005 are gone. I re-uploading them all. ^^;;;

-Rain- · Post by **-Rain-** » Sat May 28, 2005 11:37 am

All the archives previous to May dissapeared. I did a full update yesterday, just in case it serves anyone to find out what happened.

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:27 pm

As others have said, it appears large chunks of people's "public_html/d" folders somehow got deleted. Perhaps the problem will fix itself, but I wouldn't count on it.

Mercury Hat's suggestion works. If you don't already use it, I can recommend SmartFTP as an excellent way to carry out the operation. It does the job and it's free!

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:24 pm

Yeah, Untitled! lost its archive too... attempting the re-upload... Oi. I don't need this kind of headache right now. I'm supposed to be moving to a new apartment! 0_o

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:28 pm

Woohoo, it worked! I was afraid I was gonna break something...

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Sat May 28, 2005 6:22 pm

just my two cents, my comic is this way as well, everything from 04-26 and back is 404ing

Anywherebuthere · Post by **Anywherebuthere** » Sat May 28, 2005 6:30 pm

Missing mine too, goes back to april of this year and then disapears.

All of my comic jpgs are on the server, but the archive pages themselves are MIA.