hi! just wanted to verify if MSFN, specifically the message board, was down yesterday ... tried to access it several times to no avail. i got this:

Contentteller

The MySQL database of the IP.Board 2 installation has encountered the following problem:

The MySQL database server has returned 1045: Access denied for user 'nobody'@'localhost' (using password: NO) while executing SELECT COUNT(id) FROM ibf_members

SELECT COUNT(id) FROM ibf_members

Please try it in a few minutes again. We apologize for any inconvenience.

user_hidden & 5eraph were kind enough to give some info about it over another board. thanks!

Yes. It was down temporarily. But it is back online now. On a side note, they must've changed the URL processing, my old links do not work anymore. It still occurs after I deleted my cookie, is this a permanent change ? What about all the old-style links in everyones post's. Do they all re-direct to the home page now ?

This was working yesterday, now redirects to main page.

http://www.msfn.org/board/mr-jinje-dism-tool-t138804.html

Today the new link is this.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=138804

Edited January 28, 201016 yr by MrJinje

Yes. It was down temporarily. But it is back online now. On a side note, they must've changed the URL processing, my old links do not work anymore. It still occurs after I deleted my cookie, is this a permanent change ? What about all the old-style links in everyones post's. Do they all re-direct to the home page now ?

This was working yesterday, now redirects to main page.

http://www.msfn.org/board/mr-jinje-dism-tool-t138804.html

Today the new link is this.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=138804

Yep, it's a known issue.

The feature is called "friendly names" and it seems that all the Owners and Admins of all the boards in the world like to (actually I believe it's due to a stoopid setting when the board software is updated, not an actual fault of the good guys) switch it of and on every other day.

JFYI:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137119

where some details and explanations are given

jaclaz

MrJinje, i likewise experience what you mentioned ... jaclaz, i read about your posts previously

thanks guys!

Sounds like a temporary thing, probably happens so often I just never caught it before.

We're in the middle of a bit of database and site migration and maintenance, so things might be a little iffy for a bit. Hopefully when it's all done you'll find it was worth it .

will be the old friendly topic names back? I have that all my links are now broken.

Custom made SEO urls turned off. Will not be enabled again. When we upgrade to IPB 3.0.5 we will correct all links as IPB 3 have SEO integrated and friendly urls we be permanent.

We apologize for any trouble cased by this but we have to do it this way.

ok, thanks. When will you upgrade to IPB 3?

Seven to ten days we hope.

thanks

Take your time.

This (unSEOd?) link style works better for my Opera.

Hopefully, when all done, both wil work.

GL