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refs...last week, between june 23 (24, 25, 26) and june 27, I was unable to log on to DawgTalk. I assumed that the board was having issues and was down.

 
Now that I'm back on the board, I've tried to find out  what the reason was for my inability to  log on last week, as it appears that the board was not down and that was not the reason for my problem logging on.
 
I would appreciate knowing the reason I was unable log on last week, from 6/23 to 6/27...thank you, mac

I had the same problem. But, not now.

The board was down the 24th-26th. As far as the other two days, I see nothing that would have caused you to not be able to log in.

As far as I'm aware, the server was unavailable until roughly 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time on the 27th. If you had difficulties past that, it was nothing to do with the site.

Couldn’t log on all day yesterday.

This is what I’m seeing in Safari but I can come to the site in Firefox by clicking go to the site anyways.

I just received a similar message on Firefox this morning.

The SSL certificate expired last night at 8:00PM.

Thanks for the explanation.

me too

It's still doing it this morning.

Purp, your SSL expired two days ago according to my chrome browser giving me the old unsafe warning with an option to proceed.

This isn’t a logon issue, just a browser warning and it trying to keep me safe.

The SSL certificate expired October 26th. You need to go to Sectigo and renew it to browsers stop telling users it's a security risk. A lot a corporate controlled PCs will not allow browsers to connect to websites that have expired SSL certs as they can pose a security risk.

I've been a System Admin/Lead for 25 years

Yes, the SSL cert expired. I am aware and I apologize for not having corrected it, yet. I'm not going to bore anyone with details, but life has been .... busy, lately, and unless I find the energy to do this at midnight, I just haven't had the time.

I sincerely intended to try to get to it today, but the Day Job is doing its best to &*^*& that up for me.

Here's the Good News: There is nothing wrong with the site and it continues, and will continue, to function normally like this unless you are, like DaveyD, on a corporate laptop where you have Nazi admins, lol
I *promise*, that I will be getting to this as soon as I can (the cert is already paid for, I literally just have to renew it and get it in place), but I have what feels like 15 deadlines for 47 different things all hitting me right now, so I am piecemealing myself on these smaller tasks and I haven't even sat at my home PC for days.

We *used* to block forums like this until I had my way.

Hehehe... I hear ya


Cert is fixed.

Thanks man.

No doubt it was a "Dawgtalkers Global Issue". I was going nuts.

prp..thanks for all that you do...your efforts are much appreciated...

Happy to

Discovered that I have to turn off the VPN, log in and then turn the VPN on to be able to even get the log in page to load.

That would almost certainly be an issue with the VPN.

I would question whomever makes your VPN what they're doing in terms of filtering.
It would be interesting to know, however, what the VPN is set to as far as whether or not it defaults all traffic to the remote gateway or not. I'm betting it does, which means that all traffic is subject to whatever network your traffic requests pop out on.

I'm still getting, "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\WebRoots\dawgtalkers.net v2\libs\mysqli.inc.php on line 208" from time to time. This has been happening for the last few years. Can't post and/or log in sometimes. Is it hard to fix or something?

Same thing. It's been really bad since yesterday.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\WebRoots\dawgtalkers.net v2\libs\mysqli.inc.php on line 208

I don't use a VPN. I just double checked and the VPN included with my anti-virus is turned off.

This fatal error happened to me numerous times last night. I tried deleting cookies, closing and restarting bothj the page and the browser, and so forth. This isn't a long term issue, but just started happening.

This has been a recurring thing for me all season. I pretty much gave up logging in on a game day. Same error message.

The freezing, lagging and timing out has been pretty bad for a few months now. I'd say 15-20% of the time I post, it times out and gives me an error message. When it finally returns to normal, it's a coin flip as to whether my post showed up or not. I've made it a habit to ctrl-c everything I put in the reply box because there's a decent chance it's gone with the wind when I hit "post".

I couldn't get in at all yesterday.

I couldn't get on from time toi time, just like has been the case for a month or so.

That's what she said.

I thought the board was running better today, and it was, but when I logged in to post in this thread I got the dreaded, "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\WebRoots\dawgtalkers.net v2\libs\mysqli.inc.php on line 208" again. I usually don't log in when I come here, but when I do I get that message more frequently than when I don't.

It's hard to believe that this can't be fixed. It's been like this for several years now, especially when the board is busy.

It's hell getting old

I actually have a log of long-running/slow queries that I just looked at today; there are only a few that seem to really slow things down, but I haven't had an opportunity yet to dive into how best to improve them.
Part of me things that just a configuration change for MySQL should get it done, but I think there are schema changes needed. I suspect that something as simple as adding an index would make a huge difference, but I need to inspect the tables in the query first to know.

I did have MySQL optimize all tables today (if the site was returning a 500 error for you at any point, that was it, lol) and that should have improved things a little. To date, however, it was always a crapshoot as to whether or not the performance issues were the site or actually phantom errors from things external to the site.

Thanks for all you do Prp.

My issues started few days before the draft. I've gotten the 500 error (though that has been getting better). The issues I have been getting consistently are the site taking forever to load or not loading at all. FYI, I usually log in with my iPad, though I tried to log in with my laptops to see if that made a difference (it didn't).

Edit: it's taken two times to post this comment

Yeah. This is out of hand. This won't post until I try three times. The only thing missing from page loads in the 1995 Aol modem sound. Beyond aggravating. I'll check out for a week or so and see if this is fixed.

It was better for a couple of days, then tonight went back to its old tricks.

Same here.

I don't have much of a problem logging in but I get this error a lot when clicking on threads:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\WebRoots\dawgtalkers.net v2\libs\mysqli.inc.php on line 208

That's the same fatal error message I get when they hook me up to machines at the Hospital

Everyone that has regularly seen this issue, let me know if it appears to be resolved.


The slow-running query that appeared to be the primary offender was related to Post Likes, so I have temporarily disabled them. My perception is that things are already running faster, but I'm not going to rely on my perceptions with this.

Please let me know.

FWIW: Posting that message was slower than I'd like, but it went

I went to some of the longest threads aand clicked on the last post, as well as the 1st ... and it loaded immediately. It is noticeably faster.

The above reply posted immediately, as well.

Whew ! Got to admit the fun times we all had in the chat room when there were no refs making us behave.

This has me busting up GM my dear friend.

A problem logging in

Fatal error : Maximum execution time of 30 seconds

When they hook you up to machines at the hospital

What kind of machines ?

Is this Mrs GM saying the fatal error needs a machine to exceed 30 seconds ? lol

You're like the board

It may be slow at times

But it

Lives on !!

Just posted

Still waiting

Doesn't seem to be posting

Still waiting

Yawn !

This is taking forever

Oh wait !

I forgot to hit

post reply

Dang that was fast !

I'm letting you know

I finally got a like and you took it away

Lol

This is like when some people lost post counts

I lost 3000

At the time I had finally hit 5000 and had the hall of famer status

I was like sad over it

Then one of my favs on here told me it wasn't about post count but post value

She was right

I had no post count or value anymore

But hey

It's all of you that matters

You all make the board !

Ps.. It was Jules and Michelle who calmed me

That's not a fatal error, it's a "Natal" message .... as in born again.

I had been visited by the 'Fatal error' fairy off and on over the past few weeks.

Site is flying now.

Everything seems to be working smoothly now.

Yes, the website is running well now.

I tried to post the above message. I guess I spoke too soon? I got the 'Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\WebRoots\dawgtalkers.net v2\libs\mysqli.inc.php on line 208' message again when I posted.

I'll review the log in a few days to see if there are multiple occurrences of this and see what can be addressed.


LOL, Diesel!

I never liked this built-in 'Like' system, anyway. I had added a custom one years ago that was wiped out by an upgrade, but I might re-write it and bring it back. It ran a ton faster and didn't require clicking-through to another page (that's just poor design on their part).

Likes don't matter as much as

How we all appreciate

You !

Thank you for this board !

Oh !

You don't have to give this a like

LOL my friend

<Like>

lol!


So, I made another performance tweak to the database server yesterday and I cleaned up a bunch of stuff. Using the site this morning, I haven't seen it run this fast in ages. I still have slow queries getting logged for future tracking, and I think that same query keeps showing up in there, but with how things are moving right now, I'm not seeing it as much of an issue.

I did just check and there is *finally* an upgraded version of the board software available (first since 2020), so I may be moving us to that sometime this summer. If nothing else, it offers support for newer versions of the things that make the site go and those newer things run faster and more efficiently, so that will be nice.

Where is that damned like button when you need it!?

I think that was a past semi ref who did that. I won't name names. I logged in one day as a rookie with 0 posts. The day before I was HOF with 25,000 posts. I pointed that out to Shep and he couldn't say much. He did give me my HOF status even though it showed I had 10 posts. LOL