[web-team] web-team Digest, Vol 26, Issue 1

[Margaret Wendall]

Rick,

Thank you for taking care of this, *and* for explaining the reason for the
errors. Knowing why something happens is often as important in knowing how
to fix it.

Margaret

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <web-team-request at lists.svlug.org> wrote:

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>   1. Feedback from SVLUG Web site - numerous Broken Links
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>   2. Re: Feedback from SVLUG Web site - numerous Broken Links
>      (Rick Moen)
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> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:35:18 -0400
> From: leelwilcox at aol.com
> Subject: [web-team] Feedback from SVLUG Web site - numerous Broken
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> Dear Webmaster, the following links on the SVLUG home page are broken:?
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> ?
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> Talk slides: Alison Randal's June 2009?slides: The Parrot Virtual
> Machine??? (slides> 404)
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> Talk slides: Alex Honor's May 2008?slides:?CTL
> dispatcher.?????????????????????????? (CTL dispatcher > 404)
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> Talk slides: Dirk Morris's Nov. 2007?slides:?Untangle appliance(10MB
> PPT).?(slides> 403)
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> Thanks,
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> Lee
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> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:57:00 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [web-team] Feedback from SVLUG Web site - numerous Broken
>        Links
> To: leelwilcox at aol.com
> Cc: webmaster at svlug.org
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> Quoting leelwilcox at aol.com (leelwilcox at aol.com):
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> > Dear Webmaster, the following links on the SVLUG home page are broken:?
>
> Hey, Lee, thanks for taking the trouble.
>
> > Talk slides: Alison Randal's June 2009?slides: The Parrot Virtual
> Machine??? (slides> 404)
>
> This was an actual, genuine error locally in our own URL.  Link as
> stated was http://www.svlug.org/prev/2009jul/parrot_arch.pdf , but
> should have been  http://www.svlug.org/prev/2009jun/parrot_arch.pdf .
> Fixed.
>
>
> > Talk slides: Alex Honor's May 2008?slides:?CTL
> dispatcher.?????????????????????????? (CTL dispatcher > 404)
>
> You're referring not to the slides, here, but rather the link to Alex's
> "CTL" pages at ControlTier, Inc. -- which have, since May 2008,
> vanished.  You know, it's really pathetic how many allegedly competent
> commercial firms break links to their advertised pages _all the time_
> by re-organising Web sites and not bothering to forward from the old
> URLs to the new ones.  It's not difficult to get this right, but it
> seems as if the highly paid firms can't be bothered, and it's only the
> amateur webmasters who do.  Ironic, eh?
>
> Anyway, after some searching, I've found what appears to be a reasonable
> substitute for the now-vanished ControlTier page:
> http://open.controltier.org/wiki/CTL
>
> > Talk slides: Dirk Morris's Nov. 2007?slides:?Untangle appliance(10MB
> PPT).?(slides> 403)
>
> Oops, permissions error.  That's because:
>
> rick at gruyere:~/www$ cd prev
> rick at gruyere:~/www/prev$ ls -al
> total 72
> drwxrwxr-x 18 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  4 21:42 .
> drwsrwsr-x 13 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 30 02:01 ..
> drwxrwxr-x  6 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 22 12:12 .svn
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1997nov
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1998apr
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 1999sep
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2000feb
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2002oct
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2004jul
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005jun
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005nov
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2005oct
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2006apr
> drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 13  2008 2006dec
> drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Mar 18  2009 2007nov
> drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Mar 18  2009 2008may
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Apr  2  2009 2009apr
> drwxrwxr-x  2 rick     rick     4096 Jun  4 21:42 2009jun
>
>
> Which I fixed by doing:
>
> rick at gruyere:~/www/prev$ sudo chown -R www-data.www-data *
>
> Works, now.  Thanks again.
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Margaret Wendall
mwendall-at-gmail-dot-com
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal
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