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The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:28 pm
by Alastair
What has happened to the Main Page? I have tried it with two different browsers and in both cases the contents of the page are missing, this despite "view source" showing that the content still exists.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 10:37 pm
by robcfg
I've noticed the same problem.

Tried on Safari and Chrome.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:16 am
by sorchard
Same here. No main page: Two computers, different operating systems & browsers.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 6:12 pm
by tormod
Yes, b0rken. I can only see the menus on the left and the title and tabs on top. View Source shows exactly this as well. Alastair, are you sure you are seeing the old contents in View Source, and not just the menus?

The wiki page history shows no recent edits.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:06 pm
by drmarkb
Also empty when I try to view in firefox.....

Reckon it is a Speccy fan responsible :)

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:12 pm
by Alastair
tormod wrote:Alastair, are you sure you are seeing the old contents in View Source, and not just the menus?
Yes, clicking on "view source" near the top of the page gives:

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<div align="center"><font size="7"><font color="#cc0000">The </font><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#ff0000" size="7">D</font><font color="#ff9933" size="7">R</font><font color="#ffff00" size="7">A</font><font color="#00ff00" size="7">G</font><font color="#009900" size="7">O</font><font color="#6699ff" size="7">N</font></font><font color="#008080" face="Arial Black" size="7"></font><font color="#6699ff" size="7"> Archive</font></font>
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'''There are now [[Special:Allpages|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]] online.'''</div>
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Welcome to The Dragon Archive, a complete archive of everything related to the Dragon series of machines ([[Dragon 32]], [[Dragon 64]], [[Dragon 200]], [[Dragon 64|Tano Dragon]]). 

The Dragon Archive is a wiki that contains information about these machines, emulation of the [[Dragon 32]] and [[Dragon 64]], Dragon related Publications ([[Books]], [[Magazines]], Newsletters), Adverts and the [http://archive.worldofdragon.org/archive/index.php Dragon Software Archive] containing [[Games|games]], applications and system software.

You will need to register to be able to contribute to the site and its [http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3 forums], so please don't be shy. I encourage all members to take and active role in providing new content.

With over 700 files in the software archive and still more to be uploaded as I get them sorted this is the largest collection of original [[Dragon 32]] and [[Dragon 64]] software on the internet. If you are looking to emulate a Dragon then the archive recommends either the excellent [[XROAR]] from [http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/xroar.shtml www.6809.org.uk] or [[MESS]] from [http://www.mess.org www.mess.org]
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'''This site is a Wiki and its success depends upon your contribution.....so get involved today!'''
and so on, and so forth down to, and including, the "Did you know?" section .

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:05 pm
by rolfmichelsen
Looking around a bit I cannot find any recent changes to pages or templates or anything. Looks like the wiki content is all there but HTML generation somehow has started failing for all pages. Will continue looking for the root cause tomorrow.

--- Rolf

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:46 am
by Sarah
At the risk of stating the obvious... another difference is the side panel having come back; whereas until this happened the main page was there but the side panel had been missing for quite some time.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:00 pm
by admin
Hi all,

The hosts have bumped PHP from 5.2 to 5.5 and it's broken something. I'll take the site offline and update media wiki which should fix the problem. Until then I have forced this virtual host back to 5.2 which they will charge me for as its not supported.

Re: The Main Page is Empty

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 9:37 am
by admin
Main site now all updated - still need to sort out a few 3rd party extensions..