Link Problems

August 18, 2006

I guess you have already noticed that Bartelme Design was more or less “offline” over the last couple of days. The reason were — or rather are problems with the URL rewriting engine. I’ve already contacted my provider but they have not replied so far.

In this particular case it’s even worse because I will be on vacation the next two weeks — and I’m not sure whether I will have access to the internet or not. So for now I have temporarily fixed the problem by pointing most of the links to normal URLs. Most of the site should work as usual. However there are definitely still some broken links. Sorry for any inconveniences. Cheers Wolfgang.

16 comments

Well I wish you luck, have fun on vacation and the warning you have at the top is amazing (I don’t know why I think that.) so I think you’re safe.

ZicklePop

The message at the top really looks nice.

Tom S. Weber

Yeah, I noticed the day before yesterday when trying to read your post on Comment Spam. None of your posts were showing up in my feedreader, (Thunderbird), and I couldn’t get them from your home page. However, between the warning at the top, this post, and your changing things to non-rewritten URLs I think the site will be fine over your holiday. Have fun and don’t worry about it until you get back!

John Beales

Hey Wolfgang, don’t worry yourself too much… enjoy your vacation! We’ll all be here when you get back :D.

Edward Scherf

I was having this problem a few days ago… In your apache configuration file, add this: <code> <Directory "physical/dir/to/your/site"> AllowOverride All </Directory> </code> My server, Westhost, turned AllowOverride to “None” on my site “for security reasons” and didn’t tell me. Once I figured it out, it was an easy fix.

Jeremy Scott

I thought your blog allowed some xhtml tags, guess not. Ignored the <code> tags... they were for display.

Jeremy Scott

Unfortunately this site is hosted on an IIS not an Apache webserver. So I have to rely on ISAPI rewrite. By the way I’ve just received a mail from my provider stating that they have upgraded their servers and that they have problems installing the ISAPI rewrite plugin. Anyway I gonna enjoy my vacation. If I find a hot spot I may check whether the rewrite already works or not. Take care, Wolfgang

Wolfgang

It’s quite alright, no harm done. In fact, I think you ought to keep it like this, as that banner on the top is so darn lovely. ;)

Jeff Wheeler

Hope you get your rewrites turned back on soon but in the meantime I’m going to admire the cool message at the top. Great design.

James

Who cares about the links? I can stare at the beautiful index page all day! =D

Biomech

Enjoy your vacation =)

pm

Ahh… I changed off of ISS a few months ago for various reasons… but the difficult rewriting engine was one of them. But it seems your problem was not the engine, it was the server. I really get upset when servers make upgrades that screw up my site. Well, have a good trip man.

Jeremy Scott

It’s really annoying, having problems with your website while you are about to go on vacation, or already having it. Not to mention having your vacation in a place that has no internet access, like I did. But my problem was a failure renewal of my domain name and hosting account, which expiry date comes at the middle of my vacation, and because the hosting company system had a problem with reading my credit card information they have already on my account records, the automatic renewal failed and my website sound as history for a while, before they send me an apology for that horrible mistake!

Mag

I’d say the warning at the top is nice… have fun on vacation

kumar

I really apprechiate the design of the message above. Even if all links are broken, you still manage to look good :-)

Jethro

I really apprechiate the design of the message above. Even if all links are broken, you still manage to look good :-) -----

Guenter

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