It was not static. These are dynamic sites done in Perl. Yes, the
directory names and paths changed . . . .
The path
WAS: /usr/local/www/com/domain/blah
IS NOW: /home/domain/blah
Major bummer . . .
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: RE: Check out your ISP (was ISP's with CF)
> Hmm, why did you have to recode your site if it was static? (Well, you
said
> it was non-CF, so I guess it could be ASP.) I mean, if you reference
> imagines as img src="/images/foo.gif", don't tell me they actually made
you
> use a new directory name. If your site is dynamic, no matter what the
> technology is, if you do any kind of file reading and need absolute paths,
> be sure to keep the base directory as a global var. Then the ISP can move
> you around and it's no big deal.
>
> =======================================================================
> Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Allaire
>
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ UIN : 3679482
>
> "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:43 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: OT: Check out your ISP (was ISP's with CF)
> >
> >
> > Lesson learned: Check out how your ISP does business BEFORE you put
> > valuable sites on them. Case in point. I have an ISP that I put NON-CF
> > sites on. This past weekend, they have hardware problems. First, their
> > primary RAID failed, then in the process of restoring, the backup failed
> > too. This in and of itself could be forgiven, BUT (and it's a BIG BUT),
> > they had no tape or CD backups, so every single website and everything
in
> > their MySQL database was lost. Then, to add insult to injury, when they
> > rebuilt their system, they completely changed their directory
> > structure, so
> > not only must you re-upload your sites, but you must also recode your
site
> > to match their new directory structure.
> >
>
>
>
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