[Update: 8 October 2006] This is no longer the proper location for reporting bugs. From now on, use the bug reporting page within the Sindarkwiki.
Found something wrong with a sibilant intake of breath or an associated site I run? Please report it here. I try to get everything operating as well as I possibly can, but there will always be oversights. Right now, when people report them, they tend to do so all over the place and it’s hard to keep track.
This covers all types of errors not directly related to a particular post: compatibility errors, access errors, formatting errors, etc.
Those who contribute here will earn fame and fortune. Well, my appreciation, at least. If you posted an unresolved issue on another post, please copy it over here.
Many thanks.
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10,000 points to anyone who can help solve the following problem:
Back when I used Blogger for content management, it generated two types of static HTML pages: post pages and archive pages.
The post pages were (and are) kept in folders within the root directory of http://www.sindark.com, sorted first by year, then by numerical month, then as a collection of files. The archive pages were (and are) kept within a folder called http://www.sindark.com/archive. Within that folder, there is one static HTML page for each month of this blog.
All of these pages have been indexed by Google.
When I switched to WordPress, I gave it control over http://www.sindark.com, putting a file called index.php in the root directory. I moved the no-longer updated Blogger version to http://www.sindark.com/blogger. It generated a new set of post and archive pages there.
Google has not indexed these.
I want to get rid of the original pages and automatically redirect people to the new locations, after they find them through Google. I suspect I can do this through htaccess, but I don’t know the syntax.
Can anybody help?
Many thanks.
I hasten to add – though Meghan will already been entirely familiar – that, like on Who’s Line is it Anyway?, the points I issue are notional.
RTFM
B,
As far as I know, this question has nothing to do with PHP or MySQL.
It might be a helpful book, regardless.
might help…
Ooops!
This might help…
On another note, the background colour of some of the comments doesn’t work very well with the font and links colours – or at least on my computer at work.
Jo,
Re: htaccess
Since I do have both post and archive pages, the technique described in that thread doesn’t really apply. Also, I want to direct people from the old location of the Blogger pages to the new location of the Blogger pages – not to the equivalent WP pages.
Re: fonts and comments,
Compatibility is always an incredibly difficult thing to deal with. I test regularly on Firefox and IE6, where this template mostly works well (best in Firefox). I also use Safari to have a look, but it gets pretty mangled. In terms of rending pages, Safari is absolutely the worst browser out there. The latest version of Opera also seems to work for this template.
Which browser and version are you using?
It’s IE6 on windows – the colour’s just a bit dark.
As for the blogger stuff, I’d just say delete them. It won’t take google long to pick up the new URLs
Brightness and darkness are especially tricky, since there are so many bad and poorly adjusted monitors out there. For contrast, especially, the cheap new LCD monitors cropping up everywhere are especially bad. I shudder to see some of my nicer photos displayed upon them.
As for the URLs, when I shifted my blog from sindark.blogspot.com to sindark.com, it took Google more than three months to figure it out, and longer to assign PageRanks. I think figuring out how to forward by htaccess is a rather better option.
# BEGIN Custom
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sindark.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sindark.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Redirect 301 /archive http://www.sindark.com/blogger/archive/
Redirect 301 /2005 http://www.sindark.com/blogger/2005/
Redirect 301 /2006 http://www.sindark.com/blogger/2005/
# END Custom
That should do it.
@God,
I tried that. It breaks WordPress, because WordPress also uses 2005 and 2006 as directories:
http://www.sindark.com/2006/03/
I need one that redirects people to /blogger/2006/ for files ending in .html and leaves people where they are for files ending in .php
That first bit is helpful, also.
For the confused, it redirects people who go to http://sindark.com to http://www.sindark.com.
This is good for search engines.
I posted this issue on Ask Metafilter, as well.
Note to self: write a post explaining RSS syndication for those who have no idea what it is. Teach them how to subscribe to this blog in different ways.
Syndication and RSS: a simple introduction
I fixed the crazy formatting that had arisen on the my photos page.
I don’t trust the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. It has done some really screwy stuff on my watch. It is especially bad at closing formatting tags.
I fixed some previously broken links on the sham LiveJournal.
Since such a large number of people find a certain photo of Tallinn through Google Image Search and, since they haven’t updated their DB since I switched to WordPress, I added the following small redirect to my htaccess file to take them to the right page:
Redirect 301 /archive/2005_12_01_sibilant_archive.html http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/18/tallinn/
It would be better to have redirects for all the old permalinks, but to do so is beyond my level of expertise. One Google Image Search finally comes to comprehend the new structure, perhaps things will start working on their own.
One wrinkle in the above, people looking for other images from that month will all get sent to the most commonly sought one.
The Penny Arcade link on my links page is broken.
Note to self: make a static page like the ‘my photos’ page that links to collections of entries from all the trips described here. My travels, or somesuch.
Favicon not appearing beside your feeds in BlogLines? See this.
“Note to self: make a static page like the ‘my photos’ page that links to collections of entries from all the trips described here. My travels, or somesuch.”
Done
A good long-term project might be to re-vamp or redo the template for my second year at Oxford. That would need a new template entirely, modified and personalized.
Blogroll updated:
EternalBlog removed due to lack of updates
Bookworm, in vino veritas, and Vatican in IR added
One task for the future: verify ownership of my feed in BlogLines. This requires adding some code to my template and other code to a post.
You should separate bug reports from general housekeeping issues.
verify ownership of my feed in BlogLines. This requires adding some code to my template and other code to a post.
Done. Also, I added a reduced version of my banner to the top of the main BlogLines feed.
The Penny Arcade link on my links page is broken.
Fixed, though there is a spelling error at the bottom of that page: “Version 1.72 – 14 Augusr 2006″
“EternalBlog removed due to lack of updates”
Seth says he is going to start posting again, so I restored him to the blogroll.
http://www.taylorowen.com/ is not longer updated.
Cut it from your blogroll.
…a hand reaches from the sky and, with a vermillion flash, it is done.
Fix the links in this comment.
Note to self:
There is an abortive installation of MediaWiki 1.7.1 at http://www.sindark.com/wiki
It cannot be installed, at present, because GoDaddy doesn’t include PHP 5.0.0
The plan was to use it to a) replace this bug thread b) amalgamate some thesis related stuff c) experiment with a wiki
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