Dave Bryce Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Hi, guys - I think we need to switch MPN over to https. Jim says it"ll solve a bunch of issues that we have, so we"re gonna do it very soon. One of the downsides appears to be that doing this will break all of the links to 20+ years worth of the videos. While that"s highly undesirable, it"s a smaller problem than the other issues not being https is causing. Yes, daily lockups - I"m looking at you. I can"t help but believe that we"re not the first web site/community to experience this problem, so I figure there must be some kind of solution in place that others have used. Of course, each link can be fixed manuallyâ¦but that"s not exactly ideal. I know - you"d figure we could just ask our hosting folks directlyâ¦but that apparently is not an easy proposition. I"m going to try posting in the UBB help forums to see if a solution can be found there. I figured it might not hurt to ask if any of our community has any experience in such matters? dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinny Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Can we at least blame Joe for all the broken links? Quote Stuff and things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted October 28, 2021 Author Share Posted October 28, 2021 Hmmmmâ¦.I hadn"t thought of that⦠dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 It will be a good move. All the other forums I visit have made the change. And if it means I will not have to periodically wait 10 minutes for access. ... Quote This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwave Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Normally when a site is converted from HTTP to HTTPS it"s set up so that if anyone uses an old HTTP URL, the server automatically redirects the browser to the corresponding HTTPS URL, so old links still work. Quote Kurzweil PC4, Expressive E Osmose, UNO Synth Pro, Hammond B-3X on iPad, Rhodes Mark II Stage 73, ART 710-A MK4s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Hi, guys - I think we need to switch MPN over to https. Jim says it"ll solve a bunch of issues that we have, so we"re gonna do it very soon. One of the downsides appears to be that doing this will break all of the links to 20+ years worth of the videos. While that"s highly undesirable, it"s a smaller problem than the other issues not being https is causing. Yes, daily lockups - I"m looking at you. I can"t help but believe that we"re not the first web site/community to experience this problem, so I figure there must be some kind of solution in place that others have used. Of course, each link can be fixed manuallyâ¦but that"s not exactly ideal. I know - you"d figure we could just ask our hosting folks directlyâ¦but that apparently is not an easy proposition. I"m going to try posting in the UBB help forums to see if a solution can be found there. I figured it might not hurt to ask if any of our community has any experience in such matters? dB Not sure how others feel, But I'd be happy to contribute to the cost of perhaps some external online storage facility - Icedrive, Google Drive, Onedrive, Dropbox - whatever....so that all those old data links and data could be preserved with a ,ink for members of KF only. Not sure how you'd get the data off tbh honest, sorry...but yeah happy to contribute and on a monthly basis too if necessary. For all the members here it wouldn't be much, would it???? Anyhoo, just putting it out there Quote There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schmieder Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I wouldn't worry about broken video links, as those tend to have a limited lifetime anyway. Quote Eugenio Upright, 60th Anniversary P-Bass, USA Geddy Lee J-Bass, Yamaha BBP35, D'angelico SS Bari, EXL1, Select Strat, 70th Anniversary Esquire, LP 57, Eastman T486, T64, Ibanez PM2, Hammond XK4, Moog Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I wouldn't worry about broken video links, as those tend to have a limited lifetime anyway. Yep this I know in Wordpress-land there's third party plugins that allow you to bulk update URLs / links, hopefully UBB has something to offer... Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I wouldn't worry about broken video links, as those tend to have a limited lifetime anyway. UBB is in PHP and unless things have been changed since I retired the code is all in text files so a someone should be able to write a script to find and update the links in the PHP code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Thanks for the responses, guys! I went to the the UBB Central community forums and found that there's a solution there. Kind of ironic that it didn't occur to me to look there sooner...who knew consulting a topic-specific forum could help... Okay, we'll get this done. Hopefully it'll stop these DDOS attacks that have been slowing the forum up. Hey, those of you who have experience with this stuff, we may be able to use another perspective/pair of hands to help here and there. Please drop me a PM if you're interested... dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJUSCULE Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Hi, guys - I think we need to switch MPN over to https. Jim says it"ll solve a bunch of issues that we have, so we"re gonna do it very soon. One of the downsides appears to be that doing this will break all of the links to 20+ years worth of the videos. While that"s highly undesirable, it"s a smaller problem than the other issues not being https is causing. Yes, daily lockups - I"m looking at you. I can"t help but believe that we"re not the first web site/community to experience this problem, so I figure there must be some kind of solution in place that others have used. Of course, each link can be fixed manuallyâ¦but that"s not exactly ideal. I know - you"d figure we could just ask our hosting folks directlyâ¦but that apparently is not an easy proposition. I"m going to try posting in the UBB help forums to see if a solution can be found there. I figured it might not hurt to ask if any of our community has any experience in such matters? dB Not sure how others feel, But I'd be happy to contribute to the cost of perhaps some external online storage facility - Icedrive, Google Drive, Onedrive, Dropbox - whatever....so that all those old data links and data could be preserved with a ,ink for members of KF only. Not sure how you'd get the data off tbh honest, sorry...but yeah happy to contribute and on a monthly basis too if necessary. For all the members here it wouldn't be much, would it???? Anyhoo, just putting it out there Hey Dennis, there's a Patreon page for that! Quote Eric Website Gear page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Hopefully it'll stop these DDOS attacks that have been slowing the forum up. What is there a gang of Angry Banjo Players who hate keyboards DDOSing us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 I dunno...but according to Jim, the DDOS attacks are one of the slow down culprits. Turns out there's a content rebuilder in the control panel to update forum URL references from HTTP to HTTPS. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Motif Max Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I dunno...but according to Jim, the DDOS attacks are one of the slow down culprits. Turns out there's a content rebuilder in the control panel to update forum URL references from HTTP to HTTPS. dB Hallelujah. Quote Yamaha: Motif XF8, MODX7, YS200, CVP-305, CLP-130, YPG-235, PSR-295, PSS-470 | Roland: Fantom 7, JV-1000 Kurzweil: PC3-76, PC4 (88) | Hammond: SK Pro 73 | Korg: Triton LE 76, N1R, X5DR | Emu: Proteus/1 | Casio: CT-370 | Novation: Launchkey 37 MK3 | Technics: WSA1R Former: Emu Proformance Plus & Mo'Phatt, Korg Krome 61, Roland Fantom XR & JV-1010, Yamaha MX61, Behringer CAT Assorted electric & acoustic guitars and electric basses | Roland TD-17 KVX | Alesis SamplePad Pro | Assorted organs, accordions, other instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonizer Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Has anyone analyzed what percent of the http links are for specific web sites? I believe youtube forced the conversion to https-only access many years ago, but our MPN forum is so old that it probably predates that. How many of the old links on MPN to videos that are http links are for youtube? Could these all be changed safely to https? There may be other video sites in the same category, for which a similar process might work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I dunno...but according to Jim, the DDOS attacks are one of the slow down culprits. Turns out there's a content rebuilder in the control panel to update forum URL references from HTTP to HTTPS. dB I will be most grateful to have MPN go like other sites go! Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 Jim sez he"s gonna do it tomorrow. We"ll be offline while he does it. He"ll put up a global sticky to give everyone a heads up. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Woohoo! Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzzz Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Hopefully it'll stop these DDOS attacks that have been slowing the forum up. What is there a gang of Angry Banjo Players who hate keyboards DDOSing us.Angry Accordion Players; the Angry Banjo Players attack the guitar forums... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Sorry about the delay. We've engaged the UBB Central folks to make sure everything goes smoothly. Jim sez we're gonna try to get it done today. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Sorry about the delay. We've engaged the UBB Central folks to make sure everything goes smoothly. Jim sez we're gonna try to get it done today. dB Thank you for doing this important non-glamorous task for our community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad’Dib Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Would it also solve our avatar problem? Because using the ones provided SUCKS! i want to change mine more often, but can"t because what i choose is too big, or not correct according to the server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Sorry about the delay. We've engaged the UBB Central folks to make sure everything goes smoothly. Jim sez we're gonna try to get it done today. dB Thank you for doing this important non-glamorous task for our community. x1,000,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Can we at least blame Joe for all the broken links? 6 members like this: CowboyNQ, SamuelBLupowitz, RichieP_MechE, drawback, MAJUSCULE, Dave Bryce Welcome to my $#!^ list, all o'ya!!! Quote "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Would it also solve our avatar problem? Because using the ones provided SUCKS! i want to change mine more often, but can"t because what i choose is too big, or not correct according to the server. As the waitress at club says... it's all about the size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad’Dib Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Would it also solve our avatar problem? Because using the ones provided SUCKS! i want to change mine more often, but can"t because what i choose is too big, or not correct according to the server. As the waitress at club says... it's all about the size. Wellâ¦fuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Update: Apparently the size of the database and all the maintenece we need to get done to make it work properly and checked thoroughly means a longer update period. It's now scheduled for Monday. The forum will be down while it happens, so Jim will put an official announcement well in advance to give everyone a heads up. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Apparently the size of the database and all the maintenece we need to get done to make it work properly and checked thoroughly means a longer update period. Thanks for the update dB - yeah do this thing right, don't rush it. Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJkeys Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I posted a while back about this not being an HTTPS site, and Jim responded at that time. This upgrade will make the site much more secure.. Thanks guys! -dj Quote iMac i7 13.5.2 Studio One 5.5.2 Nord Stage 3 Nord Wave 2 Nektar T4 Drawmer DL 241 Focusrite ISA Two Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 DONE!!!!!! dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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