Test The New Forum Hosted On AWS Servers

[Gary Lewis]

If you want you can test the forum over on the AWS servers.  BUT BE WARNED THAT WE ARE NOT SAVING ANYTHING THAT IS POSTED THERE!

The url is http://bullnose-enthusiasts.4.gabbleforum.org/

This is from a backup of the real forum as of Sunday afternoon Sept 20th.  IOW, nothing from Sunday afternoon is on there.

You should be able to log in using your existing name and password, and I'm not signing newbies up on there.  THIS IS FOR TESTING ONLY!

But I would be interested in your thoughts.  First, I didn't get an email notification when I posted, so would like to know if you do.

Also, check it out.  Is everything seemingly there?  How is the speed?  Notice any glitches?

[1986F150Six]

My access was blocked by FortiGuard Web Filtering [Fortinet]

Web Page Blocked!
You have tried to access a web page which is in violation of your internet usage policy.

URL: http://bullnose-enthusiasts.4.gabbleforum.org/
Category: Newly Observed Domain
User name:
Group name:

To have the rating of this web page re-evaluated please click here.

[Gary Lewis]

Can you click on that to have it re-evaluated?  

[grumpin]

Went right to the test forum, looked around, and logged in. Looked good, seemed fast.

[Gary Lewis]

Great!  Try a post and see if you get an email notification that you have?  Or, do you normally on this forum?

[salans7]

I logged onto the test forum and went straight to the longest thread I could think of (Big Blue). Everything loaded much quicker than it does here, including the photos. Everything looks fine on my end.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, Shaun.  

Try posting?  Do you normally get email notification when you do?

[85lebaront2]

I went to the lounge and replied to Jim's comment. No I do not get notifications unless I ask for them (click the box).

[Gary Lewis]

Did you click the box?  If so, did you get an email notification?

And, more importantly, have you heard from Jim in the last several days?  He's AWOL.

[85lebaront2]

No I didn't click the box, I normally don't. The post from him was Sep 16th so it was 8 days ago. New forum is a lot faster!

[salans7]

Gary Lewis wrote

Thanks, Shaun.  

Try posting?  Do you normally get email notification when you do?

Posted, but have not seen any notification that I posted. I never get anything here either.

[grumpin]

Gary Lewis wrote

Great!  Try a post and see if you get an email notification that you have?  Or, do you normally on this forum?

I posted, no notification, I don't on here either.

[Gary Lewis]

You'll only get notification on here, meaning the production forum, if you are signed up to do so.  And you sign up by going to the level at which you want the email, clicking Option, and then the Email thing at the top.

In my case I'm signed up to get an email for every post y'all make here on the production forum, as you can see on the left, below.  But I'm also signed up the same way on the test forum, as you can see on the right.  But, it isn't working, so I've asked Pedro for help.

[jdavidsmi]

Gary, I made a small post on the new server. Everything works much faster even the large threads.
We are having some local issues caused by the rain yesterday but even with them it was still a lot faster.

David

[Gary Lewis]

David - That is good to see.  I think we are really going to like it.

As for the email notification problem, Pedro explained that we need to set up an SMTP (Simple Message Transfer Protocol) server.  And it looks to me like we have that ability via Amazon Webhosting Services, which is where the new forum is hosted.  So I think we have a solution to that problem.

Beyond that there are a few other things that we need to sort.  For instance, Mr Nabble made a change that blew up our "joining process" and it would be good to put that back before moving on.  In addition, we want to go "secure" so we have the green "check" by our URL and that may need to be set while we are still on the Nabble servers.

But when we get these things sorted we will need to set a date and do the cutover.  It will take an outage of the forum, although I don't think it will be long.

[85lebaront2]

Sounds good sir, I noticed the issue on the joining process as my test signup using my Yahoo account I was able to post anywhere as soon as I was accepted.