In what I hope is our last story ever on this topic, we're finally regained control of our domain name.
The site is once again accessible at our rightful name, http://rampancy.net. Please update your bookmarks. Most of the links on the site have also been changed so they go to this address, so you may need to login again.
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Claude Errera
perms problem...
http://rampancy.net/ works fine.
http://www.rampancy.net/ gives a 403 Forbidden message.
I'm guessing it's the lack of inclusion of 'index.php' as a valid index file, because
http://www.rampancy.net/index.php works fine.
Hope this helps!
narcogen
Re: perms problem...
In reply to: perms problem...Claude Errera wrote on Monday, 10/21/2002 - 2:27 pm:
: http://rampancy.net/ works fine.
:
: http://www.rampancy.net/ gives a 403 Forbidden message.
:
: I'm guessing it's the lack of inclusion of 'index.php' as
: a valid index file, because
:
: http://www.rampancy.net/index.php works fine.
Actually... it shouldn't, there's no definition for www.rampancy.net :)
There was one, and I was redirecting to http://rampancy.net, but that created a loop, so I just removed the record.
:
: Hope this helps!
Narcogen
Claude Errera
Re: perms problem...
In reply to: Re: perms problem...narcogen wrote on Tuesday, 10/22/2002 - 12:17 pm:
: : http://www.rampancy.net/index.php works fine.
:
: Actually... it shouldn't, there's no definition for
: www.rampancy.net :)
lol - gotta love the internet. :)
In any case, www.rampancy.net works just fine now. Blame it on gnomes.
narcogen
Re: perms problem...
In reply to: Re: perms problem...No, I put it back.
There are still some glitches.
The Rampancy login cookie is based on the URL of the site. All of the site's dynamically generated links use whatever URL you use to login-- so as long as you stick to those, everything is OK no matter which URL you use to login-- rampancy.net, www.rampancy.net, rampancy.synfibers.com, or rampancy.subnova.com.
However, the hardcoded links are another matter-- the self-references we paste into stories. These are just HTML links, and if one takes you to another page using a different host name than the one you logged into, then you get logged out when you visit that page.
I did a global replace in the db so that all the hardcoded links now go to rampancy.net (no www) so that's the most convenient name to use.
In the next version of Drupal, login cookies are handled differently, so this won't be an issue.
Claude Errera wrote on Tuesday, 10/22/2002 - 12:48 pm:
: narcogen wrote on Tuesday, 10/22/2002 - 12:17 pm:
:
: : : http://www.rampancy.net/index.php works fine.
: :
: : Actually... it shouldn't, there's no definition for
: : www.rampancy.net :)
:
: lol - gotta love the internet. :)
:
: In any case, www.rampancy.net works just fine now. Blame
: it on gnomes.
Narcogen
Miguel Chavez
Finally regained control?
I really never knew what the problem was with your domain name, had no idea it had to do with someone controlling it. So what happened? Is this another cautious tale of domain name theft, etc.?
Claude Errera
Re: Finally regained control?
In reply to: Finally regained control?Miguel Chavez wrote on Tuesday, 10/22/2002 - 1:20 pm:
: I really never knew what the problem was with your domain
: name, had no idea it had to do with someone controlling it.
: So what happened? Is this another cautious tale of domain
: name theft, etc.?
Just a cautionary tale against the use of NetSol, I think. ;)
(Don't register domains with an email address you no longer have access to, if the registrar refuses to use anything but that address to make changes.)
narcogen
Re: Finally regained control?
In reply to: Finally regained control?No, nothing quite so scandalous.
The name was originally registered by rex with an email account he hasn't used for years. The site was hosted on a box owned by Noc (in Utah) and administrated by Frac (in Florida).
It was registered with Netsol. Frac was the tech contact, and Rex was the admin.
So the first thing that happened was the domain expired. Rex didn't get the emails about it since he didn't have that account again. I wanted to transfer it from NetSol to someone less evil, but this isn't possible when a name gets thrown into collection (we were).
So I renewed with Netsol. By this time I'm hosting, but the tech contact is still Frac.
I had a spam blackhole problem, and had to change IP addresses at the same time Frac went on vacation. So no R.net until he came back.
Next, even once the name worked, I still wanted it registered elsewhere, and I wanted to be the admin and tech contacts, and I can't change registration until that was done.
This meant Rex had to get access to his old email account, so he could change the contacts, so I could transfer the registry... blah blah blah.
Now it's all done, and we're all set domain-wise for the forseeable future :)
Miguel Chavez wrote on Tuesday, 10/22/2002 - 1:20 pm:
: I really never knew what the problem was with your domain
: name, had no idea it had to do with someone controlling it.
: So what happened? Is this another cautious tale of domain
: name theft, etc.?
Narcogen
Miguel Chavez
Re: Finally regained control?
In reply to: Re: Finally regained control?narcogen wrote on Wednesday, 10/23/2002 - 3:59 am:
: This meant Rex had to get access to his old email account,
: so he could change the contacts, so I could transfer the
: registry... blah blah blah.
How very unusual... or maybe not? I had a client have the exact same problem but she just called netsol and they took care of it over the phone. Maybe you're issue is more involved, but the crux of the problem (no longer have the old email address accessible) seemed to be easily solved.
Well, at least it's all better now. :)