THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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-Doomzombie-dapimp! |
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seeing if this works. looks like i messed something up at the sitewide .htaccess. glad that's all it was, i was afraid it had something to do with the shellshock exploit and the recent updates to the bash shell. the code for this board is so old. i met up last night with a dude who has circled/lurked these boards (that almost sounds like circle jerk) and sorabji.*** since roughly 2000. it is good, but somehow weird, to put a human body to one of the faces that stare into these screens... sorry for the fuckup. one badly planned line of code can muck a lot of things up. for now the only board that works right is this one, drunken ramblings, hah. i'll fix the rest later today. |
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i just saw the photo. who is that guy? |
forever, and we've had some epic correspondences, mostly over the last 3 or 4 years. he was a good guy to talk to when i was having dizzy spells, walking into walls, and had to have an MRI. he sent me a copy of the International Herald Tribune from Europe when a story about me appeared in that paper. he's an interesting guy... a bit enigmatic. i don't think he's ever paid attention to these message boards. he's lived in the Philippines for most of the time we've corresponded but just moved to Japan. what happened here, in case anyone cares, was i changed the top level .htaccess to force all URLs sitewide to be sorabji.com, without the leading www. i didn't consider that this bbs software checks referers as an anti-spam security thing -- easily spoofed now but a pretty decent technique for 1997. when the hard-coded www.sorabji.com URLs were being forced to be just sorabji.com the software must have thought the referer was being spoofed (there i go again, anthropomorphizing a piece of software) so it threw an authentication error. i changed the config files and search-and- replaced hard coded www.sorabji.com urls in all the flat HTML pages. it was an easy fix but it took a while to figure out what was going on. the 301 redirects showing up in the error log are what gave it away... the software has a capacity for password-protected forums but it's never been used and i'm not even sure if it works. nothing here was ever actually password protected, it was just fucked up. |
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