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Gawd, today is dragging....
Still feeling a bit groggy, but I've got the next two days booked off - hopefully I'll be with it enough to actually do something productive with my time (let's see, get the car washed, go shopping, go for a walk, watch the last two episodes of ER on video...., the usual lazing about stuff, not that you'd be the slightest bit interested in all that).
I'm looking at changing my web host. My brother Simon has set himself up as a reseller for fasthosts, and he has provided me with their basic (i.e. free) hosting service. However this did not come with a mysql database, and since he's got a static IP address, he set up mysql on his home server and let me use that. All went well and I made my first post to the blog. Simon then went on to it to add a comment, and he got a CGI timeout error. He ended up posting the same comment three times before it actually worked. I've since had CGI timeouts while adding new posts, and also while rebuilding the site after playing around with the style sheet. It's impossible to work with - every time I make a post or someone adds a comment, it times out. No-one knows if anything is actually going into the database or not....
I asked Simon to look into whether the CGI timeout limit can be altered. He had a look at the support forums and came back with an answer which is something along the lines of: "CGI scripts are set to time out after 10 seconds. If this is not long enough to run your script, please rewrite your script so that it works within the time limits allowed". Of course, since I didn't write the movable type scripts I can't alter them (well, I could, but I don't want to get into all that). So I'm going to look for another host. I'll let you know as and when I've chosen one.
And I'm still looking at setting up a photo gallery, haven't forgotten about that one yet!
I feel like shit this morning. And no, that's not a craving. I think I picked up a bug while out and about this weekend. My chest feels tight, the back of my throat feels swollen........ perfect for the first day back at work after a long weekend..... grrr
