website status
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 1:45 pm
While the site still live...
http://atarimusic.exxosforum.co.uk/
I had to reprogram a hell of a lot of scripts get it to run on my server at all while ago. Unfortunately I had to start disabling some modules relating to the site as it is just streaming out errors in my log files like there is no tomorrow!
So far the main title newsfeed box which was on the homepage is to have vanished, but the newsfeed items were causing a lot of errors so unfortunately this is unlikely to be resolved. As I should have been copied back over to the original website url, though unfortunately someone else managed to register to this some months ago so the site is basically in limbo. I was hoping when it was copied back to the original url a lot of things would start working again. But this seems unlikely to happen. I don't think the online music jukebox works any longer , and I don't think the new album pages work any longer , I don't know if anything else is broken either.. But basically the site has been like this even before I took over. There was something like 7GB of error logs originally! While I patched a lot of then, I cannot simply spend an infinite amount of time fixing things.
As many know I started copying old articles and content over to this forum to preserve it, along with all the MP3's and such. Is still ongoing and will take a while to complete.
Long-term I regret I think I will just have to close the site down. Is just a whole mess of Joomla stuff where I had to do a lot of manual patching to hundreds of scripts to get it to work at all on my server. Needless to say the site is various levels of broken to say the least. But it was actually functional and working as it was before. Though obviously nobody uses the forum anymore(actually disabled new registrations a while ago) or upload any tunes any more (it does work as I uploaded test album). They people seem to use of the third party sites including sound cloud and youtube etc. so basically the site has been dead for a really long time.
Am not planning on taking it down any time soon, and will not do so until all content is copied over fully and all the download files links and locations are fixed as well. Sadly there is a lot of broken links were not sure if they were broken originally, or when I ported it over to my server. But I am going through them slowly one by one and copying the download links and fixing them for the forum. Overall no content I hope will be lost, or at least if there is, it will not be anything particularly important.
As people know I took over the site from Malcolm as he did not have time or much interest in music things of late, so I kept it running as I did not want to lose another long-term Atari site. I think realistically, time probably nearly upon us just to give up on this site.
I was working on a new site for it a couple years ago, where it would replace a lot of the pages with new scripts which was able to connect to the Joomla! database and basically act as the site it before but with a new user interface. Though like a lot of things, it is a huge epic of work basely recreate the whole site where practically no one would use it anyway.
Anything im not really sure about is the information relating to the MP3 themselves. Authors generally wrote a little bit of information to go along with their albums, and I'm not really sure to do with this information currently. Of course going through every album and MP3 extracting bits of information would likely be a huge undertaking. So not really sure it is worth try to keep this information or not. I think all the authors have long since vanished, the course website links from years ago are likely to be broken anyway now. I will see if I could think up something.. A lot of albums don't really have much information other than what sound equipment they use created, and even that by the looks of it, pretty remote.
I will post any more progress on this page, mostly just working through all the articles and forum posts at the moment this could likely be going on for a couple years yet..
http://atarimusic.exxosforum.co.uk/
I had to reprogram a hell of a lot of scripts get it to run on my server at all while ago. Unfortunately I had to start disabling some modules relating to the site as it is just streaming out errors in my log files like there is no tomorrow!
So far the main title newsfeed box which was on the homepage is to have vanished, but the newsfeed items were causing a lot of errors so unfortunately this is unlikely to be resolved. As I should have been copied back over to the original website url, though unfortunately someone else managed to register to this some months ago so the site is basically in limbo. I was hoping when it was copied back to the original url a lot of things would start working again. But this seems unlikely to happen. I don't think the online music jukebox works any longer , and I don't think the new album pages work any longer , I don't know if anything else is broken either.. But basically the site has been like this even before I took over. There was something like 7GB of error logs originally! While I patched a lot of then, I cannot simply spend an infinite amount of time fixing things.
As many know I started copying old articles and content over to this forum to preserve it, along with all the MP3's and such. Is still ongoing and will take a while to complete.
Long-term I regret I think I will just have to close the site down. Is just a whole mess of Joomla stuff where I had to do a lot of manual patching to hundreds of scripts to get it to work at all on my server. Needless to say the site is various levels of broken to say the least. But it was actually functional and working as it was before. Though obviously nobody uses the forum anymore(actually disabled new registrations a while ago) or upload any tunes any more (it does work as I uploaded test album). They people seem to use of the third party sites including sound cloud and youtube etc. so basically the site has been dead for a really long time.
Am not planning on taking it down any time soon, and will not do so until all content is copied over fully and all the download files links and locations are fixed as well. Sadly there is a lot of broken links were not sure if they were broken originally, or when I ported it over to my server. But I am going through them slowly one by one and copying the download links and fixing them for the forum. Overall no content I hope will be lost, or at least if there is, it will not be anything particularly important.
As people know I took over the site from Malcolm as he did not have time or much interest in music things of late, so I kept it running as I did not want to lose another long-term Atari site. I think realistically, time probably nearly upon us just to give up on this site.
I was working on a new site for it a couple years ago, where it would replace a lot of the pages with new scripts which was able to connect to the Joomla! database and basically act as the site it before but with a new user interface. Though like a lot of things, it is a huge epic of work basely recreate the whole site where practically no one would use it anyway.
Anything im not really sure about is the information relating to the MP3 themselves. Authors generally wrote a little bit of information to go along with their albums, and I'm not really sure to do with this information currently. Of course going through every album and MP3 extracting bits of information would likely be a huge undertaking. So not really sure it is worth try to keep this information or not. I think all the authors have long since vanished, the course website links from years ago are likely to be broken anyway now. I will see if I could think up something.. A lot of albums don't really have much information other than what sound equipment they use created, and even that by the looks of it, pretty remote.
I will post any more progress on this page, mostly just working through all the articles and forum posts at the moment this could likely be going on for a couple years yet..