If you have trouble accessing the board, try copying the current IP and domain into your hosts file. If this only gives you a `Domain Parking' page, try the recent IP instead.
On Mac, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, the path to this file is /etc/hosts , but on Windows it could be anywhere...
Yeah, maybe I should explain what this thing is...
The hosting company and/or domain registration service for the William Gibson Board isn't much good at notifying the webmaster [All Hail Tiger68] that the domain is about to expire. So there's a neary-annual outage, during which visitors and forum members only see a `Domain Parking' page at that URL, and can't read or post anything.
While parked, the IP address associated with the domain changes, and actually points to another server. But the real one's still there, if you know where to look.
Weekly maintenance script, just to keep various accounts active. Some expire after a month of inactivity, so it performs updates whether there's any change or not.
Contains shared data used by both `wgbeeper' and `wgmaintain'. It also contains usernames and passwords for the various services involved, so its permissions have been set to 700 [meaning only root can read/write/execute the file].
The linked text-file is just an example. Move along, move along, nothing to see there...
Oh, wait... And a few other files, just a little something to cover my ass. The thing is, 50webs has a policy, at least with relation to their free hosting, that there should be no hidden files. Everything must be linked from some HTML file or other. This is probably to support their other, `No File Storage' policy.
Fair enough. Perfectly reasonable. But just in case I missed anything, here's a list of directories used. Directory browsing should be enabled.
Seems to work okay, but make sure to remove or comment-out the hosts file entry, once order is restored... ;-P Just let me know if you have any trouble with this thing, or can suggest improvements.
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