February 9, 2004
Sproing.
Most days this web serving thing makes complete sense. Then there are days like today. For some inexplicable reason, the server which you are now accessing without any trouble whatsoever, decided to take leave of its senses this morning. Not only did it no longer wish to serve any files ending with the .html extension, but it also managed to lose track of where the FTP directories are located. No FTP access. No viewable web pages (other than a hard-coded error page which several kind souls told me they were now seeing). No quick fix via the web-based admin tools that were still functioning. I ended up shutting down the web server remotely, figuring that no web site was slightly better than a hideously broken one. All you smart people who peruse this weblog via the RSS feed would have be none the wiser, since the server was having no trouble at all handling .xml files. After a reboot of the machine this afternoon, everything seems to be running as it should. Again. Apologies to both visitors and hostees for the unscheduled (and somewhat puzzling) downtime. Oh, and did I mention that on top of everything else, I just spent 45 minutes trying to corral a squirrel that somehow wandered into our basement? Whatever.
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