GuildWiki:Software and technical issues/Resolved bugs

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Error Message: Service Temporarily Unavailable
Page: All Pages

Problem: Error Message: Service Temporarily Unavailable

''The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.'' Apache/2.0.55 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.0.5 Server at guildwiki.org Port 80

Comments: I often get this error since the last downtime of the server a couple of days ago. First I though it would probably be a cache issue, but the errors still keep coming. There seems to be no pattern at all behind when or what page is affected. When the error shos up I have to hit "reload" a couple of times to make the page load correctly. The error also shows on pages that have already loaded correctly shortly ago.

Submitted By: --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 04:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Add-on Comments: I find the errors correlating to multiple queries to the server within a short span of time. If I just click links or hit open pages once every 60 seconds (on the safe extreme), this bug wouldn't come up. But when I'm running a crusade (opening many pages successively, quickly editing them all, and saving them successively), this becomes a major hassle. But this might be a necessary evil to fight "slowness"? Not sure. -PanSola 07:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

'Solved:' Gravewit 07:23, 20 February 2006 (CST)

Pref Issue
Page: All Pages

Since all the pages loads increased I noticed that everytime I click a link its trying to load http://www.google-analytics.com/ then the page. Not sure if it's related to the slowness but I never noticed it before. I also tried to visit http://www.google-analytics.com/ and the page never loaded for me.


 * We've been using google analytics for 3 or 4 months. Nothing to do with slowness. Gravewit 15:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Search returns blank page
Page: http://www.guildwiki.org/searchme.php?q=

Problem: Every now and then (not always, about 1 out of 3 times) the search function returns a blank page for me. This happens regardless if I use "Go" or "Search". Even repeated F5 refreshing will keep the result page blank.

I've seen this bug both on my PC at home and at work in the office, using different client hardware, OS and connection, so I assume the bug is server side. Both my PC's at work and at home use IE.


 * New findings: As somebody pointed out somewhere else, this has to do with the buttons. If you hit [ENTER] (on your keyboard), you will end up on the blank page, consistently, every single time. But if you use one of the buttons ([Go] or [Search]), everything works fine. -- 05:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Comments: This hasn't happened before we moved server and/or before we switched to Google site search. Not sure if either of the two things has to do with the problem.
 * This hasn't worked yet for me 08:22, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This has not worked in over a week, the site is basically unsearchable and using cached Google pages is useless in finding new pages. --Karlos 17:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Just a note, but I have had no issues with this at all using FireFox. (Note: I'm not trying to get anyone to change, just noting this for the people who might be looking to fix the problem that they might want to look at how IE handles this differently from FF.)  --Rainith 11:03, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Submitted By: -- 08:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Resolved: Gravewit 15:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Echo Bug
Page: Echo and Arcane Echo

Problem: When I try to access either Echo page, I get this message:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wiki/Arcane_Echo on this server. Apache/2.0.55 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.0.5 Server at www.guildwiki.org Port 80

Submitted By: 68.253.211.16 21:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC).

Hint: This may be an issue with the webserver configuration not with the wiki itself, as the error occurs with any URL that contains the word 'echo' like http://www.guildwiki.org/thisdoesnotexist/echo while any other URL (e.g. http://www.guildwiki.org/thisdoesnotexist/ocho) results in the usual 404 (not found) instead of the above mentioned 403 (forbidden) --Si Tacuisses 09:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Resolved: Gravewit 20:37, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

SQL error
Page: User:Skuld

Problem: Tried to preview my page, got this:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff:_doquery". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'zeroliv_db5:messages:Bad_image_list' for key 1 (localhost)".

Comments:

This shows up to me on occassion too. Though the edit always takes place. --Karlos 01:24, 26 October 2005 (EST)

Everytime I've gotten this, it's been on a page with a bad image. --Rezyk 04:51, 29 October 2005 (EST)


 * I've gotten this once or twice, and it always seems so random. It will happen on a page once, but not consistantly. Gravewit 14:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Submitted By: Skuld &Dagger; 21:09, 25 October 2005 (EST)

Solved: Gravewit 20:35, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Site support images
Page: Site support

Problem: The images that link to the paypal donation links are all missing.

Comments: Sounds like something trivial too. Something was not copied or a path needs to be corrected.

Submitted by: --Karlos 01:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Resolved: Gravewit 01:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Upload Not Working
Page: Special:Upload

Problem: When you click on "Upload File" this is what you get: The upload directory (/home/guildwiki/public_html/images) is not writable by the webserver.

Coments: This makes it kind of hard to upload stuff. :( Should be an easy fix I would think though.  :)

Submitted By: --Rainith 01:25, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Resolved: Gravewit 01:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Can't Delete This Image
Page: Image:EshnalHardwood.JPG

Problem: The wiki reports: Could not delete file "/usr/home/0chroot/zeroliv/home/zeroliv/public_html/guildwars/images/0/0c/EshnalHardwood.JPG".

Comments: Moo.

Submitted By: Fyren 09:07, 30 October 2005 (EST)

Resolved: Gravewit 10:12, 1 November 2005 (EST)

Where's Upload File?
Page: All pages

Problem: Upload File link is gone, it was very convenient to have it on any page. It's not just missing, I found the link and it says it's disabled!

Comments: Bring back the Upload File link.

Submitted By: Karlos 08:55, 16 October 2005 (EST)

Resolved: Gravewit 11:39, 16 October 2005 (EST)

Indentation of Stub templates
Page: Stance Beast Mastery and many others.

Problem: Ever since User:Skuld introduced the indentation at the beginning line of the templates (which is a good idea) this indentation is presently indenting the first line of most articles that have stub tages at the beginning. I have tried to remove it and failed.

Comments: This is not a technical isse with MediaWiki, and is probably something Fyren or someone more versed than I can look into.

Resolved: Fixed it, added    to the bottom of it, the hidden line blocks out the indentation for the next line, that needs to be added for the other stubs though Skuld &Dagger; 06:55, 19 October 2005 (EST)

I found that the hr tag added extra vertical padding. I submitted a fix that avoids this. --Rezyk 09:31, 30 October 2005 (EST)