Category: Pointless Ramblings

Ooooo-er missus. Well I know at 1 person is vaguely interested. Anyway it (the server)seems to be all working now. MySQL seems to want to start and the missing content is now not missing.

So a big thank you to my temporary server………….

And a welcome return to my server……

One day I’ll write down the fix,  still it makes a little more interesting this way.

The long awaited server update has begun. This blog is currently served on my temporary server. Hopefully no one will notice any difference.

The server rebuild shouldn’t take too long. Probably the worst bit is the Data Copy.

Backup reports an hour or so to complete. We’ll see. It does lie about time.

/edit:  Backup time was bollocks.  I’ve had to do a few restarts on the backup in the meantime.  It’s now claiming 36 minutes.  ho-hum.  This kinda knackers my attempt to rebuild tonight.  So will probably reinstate the server tonight, which means this message will not be seen!!

Though I could just get pissed with and wipe away anyway.

So after struggling to find a solution I **may** have found one that works. Though I’ve found searching for the ‘Error establishing a database connection’ message brought up a lot of new installation advice. My problem has been it was occasionally losing the connection.

The wp-config.php file has a line to define the Db_Host location. This was the local host name. I’ve found that putting the localhost IP address seems to bring the blog back up. Without requiring a reboot (which is nice).

So I will be monitoring. This blog and Photoblography.net seem to have been fixed with the same procedure. My test blog is till not communicating with the MySql service (but I’ll leave that as a guide).

Not enjoyed by everyone…….

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.  Actually post a link to John Swannell’s website.  I’ve been a fan of Swannell since the early nineties.   He was featured in Practical Photography magazine (before it went a bit shit).   To be fair, I hadn’t heard of him until I read the feature.  I’d certainly seen a number of his images in the past.  I’d be interested in buying a print from his site, however it may be firefox but the prints page seems not to offer any ‘add to cart links’.  I’ll test again from elsewhere.

Click the link under the camera related section.  Oh enjoy!